Does Too Much News on Social Media Discourage News Seeking? Mediating Role of News Efficacy Between Perceived News Overload and News Avoidance on Social Media

Park, Chang Sup

doi:10.1177/2056305119872956

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“…Skovsgaard and Andersen (2019) argue that one potential cause for avoidance is the overload of information, which is in accordance with the term infodemic coined by the World Health Organization. This connection is further elucidated in recent studies on social media (Park, 2019;Song et al, 2017), showing that news avoidance directly affects news efficacy.…”

Section: Information Avoidance and Symptoms Of Psychopathologymentioning

confidence: 83%

Information Dissemination and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Relationship between Different Information Sources and Symptoms of Psychopathology

Om¹,

Hoffart²,

Su³

et al. 2021

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The 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic has added to the mental health strain on individuals and groups across the world. Viral mitigation protocols and viral spread affect millions every day, but to widely different degrees. How individuals gather information about the pandemic might have an effect on levels of mental distress in the population. In this cross-sectional and representative study of the adult population of Norway, findings suggest that information gathered through newspapers and social media are the information pathways with the strongest association to symptoms of anxiety, depression and health anxiety with small to medium effect sizes. However, avoiding information about the pandemic had larger effect sizes related to symptoms of psychopathology than acquiring information about the pandemic from any source. The results suggest that to reach those who avoid pandemic news is an important goal, both to ensure the population as a whole gets relevant information regarding current viral mitigation protocols, that may in turn alleviate stress, and thus reduce the likelihood of viral transmission. The spread of pandemic misinformation on social media and the internet must be buffered, and successful interventions against misinformation may affect the mental health of the population.

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Section: Information Avoidance and Symptoms Of Psychopathologymentioning

confidence: 83%

Information Dissemination and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Relationship between Different Information Sources and Symptoms of Psychopathology

Om¹,

Hoffart²,

Su³

et al. 2021

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“…The style of consuming news on social media can result in users paying less attention to credibility cues, as they rely on social media & aggregator advice (Pearson & Knobloch-Westerwick, 2018). In addition, the absence of an editorial team of social media that guarantees the quality of journalism and the correctness of information (Park, 2019) so that the news on social media cannot be fully trusted.…”

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University Students' Ability in Evaluating Fake News on Social Media

Khairunissa

2020

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Background of the study: Social media has become a traffic information exchange, both true and false information. Therefore, social media users should not simply believe the information they received. This paper investigates the process of evaluating news on social media carried out by students in assessing the news they find on social media, and their ability to distinguish factual and false news.Purpose: It is to find out more about the process of students evaluating news on social media by assessing the news they found on social media, and how can they know which is the factual news and which is the fake news.Method: This research uses qualitative research methods with a descriptive approach. This research was conducted at Gadjah Mada University. The purposive sampling technique was chosen to be used in determining participants.Findings: Overall, participants were able to identify almost all news articles. Participants are able to identify almost all factual news articles correctly and most fake news articles correctly. Only a small portion of all news articles cannot be correctly identified by participants. Participants are better to identify factual news than fake news.Conclusion: Although participants already have experience in finding fake news on social media and have self-taught knowledge about how to distinguish fake news from reliable news, this is no guarantee that they can tell the news article they got fake news or factual news. The researcher wants to give advice to the academic library to provide training on the characteristics of reliable referral sources and to think critically in assessing information as part of student information literacy training.

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“…News overload induces news avoidance by increasing news fatigue and news paralysis (Song, Jung, and Kim 2017). Important factors behind news overload are the lack of information-seeking skills, self-efficacy, and self-confidence in navigating the digital media environment (Edgerly 2019;Park 2019;Schmitt, Debbelt, and Schneider 2018).…”

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Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era

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This article comparatively examines news avoidance in a rapidly changing media environment. We utilize findings from a large dataset of 488 in-depth interviews with media consumers, conducted in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the US. We aim to make a contribution to the study of news avoidance by providing a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the drivers, practices, and patterns of news avoidance as they occur in and are shaped by a variety of national contexts. We argue that news avoidance is shaped not only by individual characteristics, but is also manifested and performed as part of specific time frames and socio-cultural factors. We distinguish two drivers of intentional news avoidance: cognitive and emotional. The cognitive drivers are accentuated by distinct country-level contextual factors, whereas the emotional drivers for news avoidance are shared across diverse national contexts.

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Does Too Much News on Social Media Discourage News Seeking? Mediating Role of News Efficacy Between Perceived News Overload and News Avoidance on Social Media

Cited by 90 publications

References 69 publications

Information Dissemination and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Relationship between Different Information Sources and Symptoms of Psychopathology

Information Dissemination and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Relationship between Different Information Sources and Symptoms of Psychopathology

University Students' Ability in Evaluating Fake News on Social Media

Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era

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