reluctant audiences for journalism Toff, Benjamin creator Palmer, Ruth 1979- Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis 1980- text bibliography nyu 2024 monographic eng

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ix, 272 pages ; 23 cm. "A small but growing number of individuals in the West identify themselves as news avoiders and are turning away from traditional news organizations. For news avoiders, news as reported by the mainstream press is not worth their time or emotional energy, not relevant to their lives, too partisan, or not to be trusted. Even in the last few years as news has seemed particularly pressing, people are increasingly avoiding it as revealed in a recent surveys. In Avoiding News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism, Rasmus Nielsen, Ruth Palmer, and Benjamin Toff examine the reasons behind news avoidance, its impact, and what, if anything, can be done about it. Their work is based on interviews and surveys with more than 160 news avoiders in Spain, the UK, and the United States. The authors examine how news avoiders get information - social media, friends and family, alternative news sources - and how they develop "folk theories" about how news organizations work. They also consider the ways in which race, class, and gender shape people's ideas about news and how news avoidance affects already disadvantaged communities. The authors conclude that news avoidance is a problem for civil society and has contributed to the recent rise of reactionary populism in the West. To confront the problem of news avoidance a variety of efforts are needed that not only change the content of the news but seek to understand and address individuals' habits and views about news organizations"-- Acknowledgments1. Is Ignorance Bliss?2. Who Are Consistent News Avoiders?3. Why News Avoiders Say They Don’t Use News4. Identities: How Our Relationships to Communities Shape News Avoidance5. Ideologies: How Beliefs About Politics Shape News Avoidance6. Infrastructures: How Media Platforms and Pathways Shape News Avoidance7. News for All the People?Appendix A: Studying News Avoidance Using Interpretive MethodsAppendix B: Summary Tables Describing Study ParticipantsAppendix C: Interview Protocols for In-Depth InterviewingNotesIndex Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. Includes bibliographical references and index. News avoidance (Psychology) News audiences Journalism Periodismo Mass media Medios de comunicación PN 4784 T644a 2024 302.23 Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis. New York : Columbia University Press, 2023 (DLC) 2023027785 9780231205191 (trade paperback) 0231205198 (trade paperback) 2023027784 DLC 230726 20260205120908.0 23244928 eng