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10.30935/ojcmt/12026
| Title: | From Lower Disease Risk Perception to Higher News Avoidance : Analysis of News Consumption and Attitude Toward COVID-19 News in Latvia |
| Authors: | Murinska, Sandra Rožukalne, Anda Strode, Ieva Rīga Stradiņš University |
| Keywords: | COVID-19;disease risk perception;health behavior;news avoidance;news consumption;news fatigue;5.8 Media and Communication;1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database;Communication;Education;Media Technology;Computer Science Applications |
| Issue Date: | 16-Apr-2022 |
| Citation: | Murinska , S , Rožukalne , A & Strode , I 2022 , ' From Lower Disease Risk Perception to Higher News Avoidance : Analysis of News Consumption and Attitude Toward COVID-19 News in Latvia ' , Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies , vol. 12 , no. 3 , e202216 , pp. e202216 . https://doi.org/10.30935/ojcmt/12026 |
| Abstract: | Recognizing that regular information during a pandemic helps societies navigate through a period of insecurity, the aim of this study is to understand how news about different aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic affects the attitude of media audiences towards news. This study seeks to explain the society’s news consumption and the attitude towards COVID-19 news in Latvia linking it to self-evaluation of the perceived disease risk. A national survey data (September 2020, N=1,005) analysis shows a statistically significant but weak correlation between disease risk self-evaluation and the attitude towards pandemic news. Respondents who rate the risk of the disease as higher and real are more interested in news, consume news to create a sense of security, feel less fatigue towards news, and are less likely to avoid COVID-19 news. Respondents who believe that the risk of illness is low and unreal, are less interested in news, feel more tired, avoid the news more often. |
| Description: | Funding Information: Author contributions: All authors were involved in concept, design, collection of data, interpretation, writing, and critically revising the article. All authors approve final version of the article. Funding: This work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Latvia, as part of the project ‘Life with COVID-19: Evaluation of Overcoming the Coronavirus Crisis in Latvia and Recommendations for Societal Resilience in the Future’ under Grant number VPP-COVID-2020/1-0013. Declaration of interest: Authors declare no competing interest. Data availability: Data generated or analyzed during this study are available from the authors on request. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by authors; licensee OJCMT by Bastas, CY. |
| DOI: | 10.30935/ojcmt/12026 |
| ISSN: | 1986-3497 |
| Appears in Collections: | Research outputs from Pure / Zinātniskās darbības rezultāti no ZDIS Pure |
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