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5 Ideologies: How Beliefs About Politics Shape News Avoidance

  • Benjamin Toff , Ruth Palmer and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
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Avoiding the News
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. 1 Is Ignorance Bliss? 1
  5. 2 Who Are Consistent News Avoiders? 28
  6. 3 Why News Avoiders Say They Don’t Use News 48
  7. 4 Identities: How Our Relationships to Communities Shape News Avoidance 75
  8. 5 Ideologies: How Beliefs About Politics Shape News Avoidance 100
  9. 6 Infrastructures: How Media Platforms and Pathways Shape News Avoidance 130
  10. 7 News for All the People? 153
  11. Appendix A: Studying News Avoidance Using Interpretive Methods 177
  12. Appendix B: Summary Tables Describing Study Participants 197
  13. Appendix C: Interview Protocols for In- Depth Interviewing 216
  14. Notes 229
  15. Index 261
https://doi.org/10.7312/toff20518-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. 1 Is Ignorance Bliss? 1
  5. 2 Who Are Consistent News Avoiders? 28
  6. 3 Why News Avoiders Say They Don’t Use News 48
  7. 4 Identities: How Our Relationships to Communities Shape News Avoidance 75
  8. 5 Ideologies: How Beliefs About Politics Shape News Avoidance 100
  9. 6 Infrastructures: How Media Platforms and Pathways Shape News Avoidance 130
  10. 7 News for All the People? 153
  11. Appendix A: Studying News Avoidance Using Interpretive Methods 177
  12. Appendix B: Summary Tables Describing Study Participants 197
  13. Appendix C: Interview Protocols for In- Depth Interviewing 216
  14. Notes 229
  15. Index 261
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