Abstract:Lower levels of news use are generally understood to be associated with less political engagement among citizens. But while some people simply have a low preference for news, others avoid the news intentionally. So far little is known about the relationship between active news avoidance and civic engagement in society, a void this study has set out to fill. Based on a four-wave general population panel survey in the Netherlands, conducted between April and July 2020 (N = 1,084) during a crisis situation, this … Show more
“…Previous qualitative research shows that those who purposefully limit their news consumption tend to be calmer, hold a constructive attitude, and actively participate in public political life (Woodstock, 2013). A recent four-wave panel survey (n = 1084) in the Netherlands also shows that higher news topic avoidance results in a higher level of civic engagement (Ohme et al, 2022b), which also provides quantitative evidence for the latter opinion.…”
Section: News Avoidance In Occupationmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Based on the review of career motivation (e.g., Coleman et al, 2016; Pjesivac, 2017), news efficacy (e.g., Bandura, 1997; Bobkowski and Rosenthal, 2022) and news avoidance (e.g., Ohme et al, 2022b), this study examines eight hypotheses within a conceptual framework (see Figure 1). Figure 1.Hypothesized model.…”
With the profound transformation of Chinese journalism under the commercialized trend of thoughts, there is a debate on whether Chinese journalists still maintain the public service ideal or just regard it simply as a job. In other words, is journalism a “vocation” or a “profession”? Therefore, it is necessary to conduct an empirical study on journalistic roles. Drawing on the self-determination theory, this study constructs a framework of “career motivation–news attitude” to build a bridge between role orientations and performance, in order to comprehensively understand the Chinese journalistic roles. In this study, a quota sampling survey ( n = 1000), multiple linear regression (MLR), and structural equation modeling (SEM) are used to examine the influence of advocacy and utilitarian motivations on news efficacy and news avoidance, corresponding to news production and consumption attitudes. Furthermore, the study divides the journalistic roles in China into four categories: purposive advocate professionals, dedicated advocate professionals, workaday journalists, and adrift journalists. The results show that advocacy motivation, or the public service ideal, is more significant than utilitarian motivation in the journalistic roles. The former is associated with higher news efficacy and lower news avoidance, while the latter is only associated with higher news avoidance. The study also discusses the demographic factors of journalistic career motivations.
“…Previous qualitative research shows that those who purposefully limit their news consumption tend to be calmer, hold a constructive attitude, and actively participate in public political life (Woodstock, 2013). A recent four-wave panel survey (n = 1084) in the Netherlands also shows that higher news topic avoidance results in a higher level of civic engagement (Ohme et al, 2022b), which also provides quantitative evidence for the latter opinion.…”
Section: News Avoidance In Occupationmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Based on the review of career motivation (e.g., Coleman et al, 2016; Pjesivac, 2017), news efficacy (e.g., Bandura, 1997; Bobkowski and Rosenthal, 2022) and news avoidance (e.g., Ohme et al, 2022b), this study examines eight hypotheses within a conceptual framework (see Figure 1). Figure 1.Hypothesized model.…”
With the profound transformation of Chinese journalism under the commercialized trend of thoughts, there is a debate on whether Chinese journalists still maintain the public service ideal or just regard it simply as a job. In other words, is journalism a “vocation” or a “profession”? Therefore, it is necessary to conduct an empirical study on journalistic roles. Drawing on the self-determination theory, this study constructs a framework of “career motivation–news attitude” to build a bridge between role orientations and performance, in order to comprehensively understand the Chinese journalistic roles. In this study, a quota sampling survey ( n = 1000), multiple linear regression (MLR), and structural equation modeling (SEM) are used to examine the influence of advocacy and utilitarian motivations on news efficacy and news avoidance, corresponding to news production and consumption attitudes. Furthermore, the study divides the journalistic roles in China into four categories: purposive advocate professionals, dedicated advocate professionals, workaday journalists, and adrift journalists. The results show that advocacy motivation, or the public service ideal, is more significant than utilitarian motivation in the journalistic roles. The former is associated with higher news efficacy and lower news avoidance, while the latter is only associated with higher news avoidance. The study also discusses the demographic factors of journalistic career motivations.
“…La literatura establece relaciones entre el engagement y la desinformación a partir de las cuales se puede hipotetizar sobre la relación entre este recurso intangible y el de la "resiliencia a la desinformación". Autores como Ohme et al (2022), por ejemplo, destacan que el engagement es un intangible relevante que atenúa los efectos negativos que ciertas amenazas pueden tener sobre la democracia. A mayor implicación en lo público, mayor conocimiento del mismo.…”
Section: El Recurso Intangible Engagement Y La "Resiliencia a La Desi...unclassified
Esta investigación aborda el estudio de la desinformación en el marco de los recursos intangibles en el sector público. Con apoyo en datos de Eurobarómetro referidos a España, se explora: a) si se puede elaborar un factor que mida la resiliencia de los ciudadanos a la desinformación, y con el que se pueda conceptualizar y operacionalizar esta resiliencia como un recurso intangible asociado a los países; y b) si hay otros recursos intangibles que ayuden a incrementar la resiliencia. Los resultados proporcionan pistas para identificar valor intangible en las reacciones de las personas a la desinformación, así como para operacionalizar la exploración de las relaciones causales entre recursos intangibles que derivan de las instituciones públicas y la resiliencia a la desinformación. Con apoyo en los hallazgos se concluye también sobre las implicaciones operativas para las políticas gubernamentales para combatir la desinformación.
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