It has become increasingly clear that news avoidance is a multidimensional phenomenon consisting of both intentional news avoidance and low news use, yet knowledge about the longitudinal dynamics between these dimensions is still lacking. Furthermore, there is a lack of studies investigating the relationship between intentional news avoidance and specific news media repertoires. This article contributes to the literature on news avoidance by (a) including measures of both intentional news avoidance and news consumption as well as (b) using longitudinal panel data, to investigate the long-term dynamics between news media repertoires and intentional news avoidance. We rely on a four-wave panel survey conducted in Sweden (N = 7,283). The results show that intentional news avoidance and low news use are indeed distinct but intertwined dimensions. Intentional news avoidance is dynamic and influenced by different situational and media environmental factors and can be viewed as a function of (reconstructing) news consumption practices. At the same time, the results also show that people who report that they intentionally avoid the news are more likely to become low news users, implying that for some, temporary intentional avoidance might lead to habitual estrangement.
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Design schools in digital media and interaction design face the challenge of integrating recent artificial intelligence (AI) advancements into their curriculum. To address this, curricula must teach students to design both "with" and "for" AI. This paper addresses how designing for AI differs from designing for other novel technologies that have entered interaction design education. Future digital designers must develop new solution repertoires for intelligent systems. The paper discusses preparing students for these challenges, suggesting that design schools must choose between a lightweight and heavyweight approach toward the design of AI. The lightweight approach prioritises designing front-end AI applications, focusing on user interfaces, interactions, and immediate user experience impact. This requires adeptness in designing for evolving mental models and ethical considerations but is disconnected from a deep technological understanding of the inner workings of AI. The heavyweight approach emphasises conceptual AI application design, involving users, altering design processes, and fostering responsible practices. While it requires basic technological understanding, the specific knowledge needed for students remains uncertain. The paper compares these approaches, discussing their complementarity.
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This article offers an overview of 94 scientific studies (published between 2006 and 2022) to examine how young people (ages 10–36) define, consume, and evaluate news. Research on news and youth has exploded over the past decades, but what can we conclude from it, and how should journalism scholars move forward? The systematic literature review reveals that while young people remain interested in news, how they consume it has changed drastically. Social media platforms and algorithms now play a pivotal role in young people’s news consumption. Moreover, due to the overwhelming nature of today’s high-choice digital media landscape, youth engage both actively and passively with news, while sometimes exhibiting avoidance tendencies. The review also demonstrates how the impact of digitalization has reshaped young people’s ability to critically evaluate the credibility of news, often relying on social networks and technology platforms. The review concludes with a research agenda.
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Youths in Bolgatanga municipality in the Upper East Region in the rural north of Ghana suffer health and social problems that are caused by their premarital and unsafe sexual behaviour. This study provides more knowledge of and insight into the youths’ conceptions, motives and practices concerning premarital sex in the specific cultural and social context of Bolgatanga municipality. The results of this study can contribute to the development of more effective sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes. Interviews with 33 youths and 27 key respondents were carried out. Four repertoires were constructed to present the dynamics wherein the youths’ premarital sexual behaviour takes place. The dominant ideology of abstaining from premarital sex contrasts with the counter ideology of allowing premarital sex, influenced by increasing modernization. SRH programmes should take into account the increasing influence of modernity, gender differences and the compelling influence of peer groups, all of which contribute to youths engaging in premarital sex, with health and social problems as possible consequences. (Afr J Reprod Health 2013; 17[4]: 93-106).
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In this case study, we want to gain insights into how residents of three municipalities communicate about the new murder scenario of the cold case of Marianne Vaatstra and the possibility of a large-scale DNA familial searching. We investigate how stakeholders shape their arguments in conversation with each other and with the police. We investigate the repertoires that participants use to achieve certain effects in their interactions with others in three focus groups. The results show that the analyzed repertoires are strong normative orientated. We see two aspects emerge that affect the support for large-scale DNA familial searching. These are: 1. Cautious formulations: respondents showed restraint in making personal judgments and often formulated these on behalf of others. Participants would not fully express themselves, but adjusted to what seemed the socially desirable course. 2. Collective identity: respondents focused on the similarities between themselves and the needs, interests, and goals of other participants. Participants also tried in a discursive way to convince each other to participate in the large-scale familial searching. These two major discursive activities offered the communication discipline guidance for interventions into the subsequent communication strategy.
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In this case study, we want to gain insight into how residents of three municipalities communicate about the new murder scenario of the cold case of Marianne Vaatstra and the possibility of a large-scale DNA familial searching. We investigate how stakeholders shape their arguments in conversation with each other and with the police. We investigate the repertoires that participants use to achieve certain effects in their interactions with others in three focus groups. The results show that the analyzed repertoires are strong normative orientated. We see two aspects emerge that affect the support for large-scale DNA familial searching. These are: 1. Cautious formulations: respondents showed restraint in making personal judgments and often formulated these on behalf of others. Participants would not fully express themselves, but adjusted to what seemed the socially desirable course. 2. Collective identity: respondents focused on the similarities between themselves and the needs, interests, and goals of other participants. Participants also tried in a discursive way to convince each other to participate in the large-scale familial searching. These two major discursive activities offered the communication discipline guidance for interventions into the subsequent communication strategy.
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De Handreiking Discursieve Analyse, ofwel de ‘Discoursanalytische Bril’ (DaB) is een waardevol en praktisch instrument voor communicatieprofessionals. Het is een kennismaking met de discursieve benadering: het geeft een overzicht van stappen bij discoursanalyse, inzichten die deze analyse oplevert en de meerwaarde daarvan voor communicatieprofessionals. Ook wordt in de DaB een voorbeeld gepresenteerd van discoursanalyse in de communicatiepraktijk: de zaak-Vaatstra. De DaB is een samenwerking van het Lectoraat Communication & Sustainable Society (Hanzehogeschool Groningen), het Lectoraat Crossmediale Communicatie in het Publieke domein (Hogeschool Utrecht) en Dienst Publiek en Communicatie Ministerie van Algemene Zaken.
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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 research-in-brief investigates the development of news avoidance and pro-social civic engagement over time. Results suggest that higher news topic avoidance results in higher levels of civic engagement. The study discusses different explanations for why less news can mean more engagement.
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Nixon and Metiary argue that the notion of protest needs to be included in the global education system as a distinct activity. It needs to take its place alongside other social sciences and humanities courses in the school curricula. They stress that the ability to impact society, to incite societal change, to participate through more means than voting, needs to be taught. It needs to be implemented into the global education system.
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Onderzoek in opdracht projectgroep Leef en Leer! (bestaand uit ObA, gemeente Amsterdam, E-TV en AT5) om onderzoek te doen naar de kwaliteit van netwerkvorming en netwerkintelligentie en de manier waarop die netwerkvorming ondersteund kan worden met een goed hanteerbare communicatiestructuur. Leef en Leer! wil in de wijken digitale geletterdheid van Amsterdammers in aandachtsgroepen versterken. Onderzoek is gebaseerd op kwalitatieve interviews met stakeholders en adviseert over verdere netwerkvorming in de eerste uitrolfase van de Leef en leer! pas aan eindgebruikers. Analyse is gebaseerd op de verschillende manieren waarop betrokkenen meenden dat zijzelf of anderen iets 'moesten'. Het 'moeten' werpt ligt op de normatieve en idealistische kant aan het Leef en Leer! netwerk en op haar meer disciplinaire kant. Dit valt terug te voeren op het langzaam duidelijker worden van de aard van het Leef en leer! netwerk. Het idealisme van de stuurgroep en later aangesloten wijkpartners verhoudt zich goed tot een transformatief netwerk en slecht tot een netwerk dat gericht is op institutionalisering.
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