Finding relevance in the news: The scale of self-reference

Barchas‐Lichtenstein, Jena; Voiklis, John; Glasser, Darcey B.; Fraser, John

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2020.10.001

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“…Relevancy is an exchange between getting the most recent information while putting in the least amount of effort. Importantly, in this perspective, relevance is always relative rather than absolute: people will consider what is most essential at any particular time ( Barchas-Lichtenstein et al, 2021 ). Meanwhile, relevance has been largely overlooked in the language research on news values.…”

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Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance

Zhang¹,

Akhter

Nassani

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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In this global village, easy access to news has resulted in many changes in the preferences and patterns of people for accessing news. Therefore, the present study has attempted to investigate the effects of news relevance, perceived quality, and news overloading on people’s news curation preferences. This study has also examined the mediating role of news avoidance between the news relevance, perceived quality, and news overloading on the news curation. A quantitative technique has been employed to check the relationships proposed in the study. A sample size of 217 has been analyzed to check these hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that news relevance has a negative impact while news overload positively and significantly impact the news curation. However, the news avoidance only mediated the relationship of news quality and news curation. Theoretically, the study has contributed to the literature of journalism and social media by finding that relevance of news has a negative significant impact on the news curation behavior of people, such that if they do not find the news relevant, they happily curate it. Practically, the study implies that the people are more prone to the quality of news rather than quantity; therefore, it is important for the news agencies to ensure that they produce and deliver the quality based news considering the accuracy to penetrate the Theoretic lass level.

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Section: Theoretical and Hypothesis Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%