Seeking Out and Avoiding the News Media: Young Adults’ Proposed Strategies for Obtaining Current Events Information

By Stephanie Edgerly. 2017

103 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Communication

1. Samuel M. Tham
2. Esther Thorson
3. Rachel R. Mourão
4. Stephanie Edgerly

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Esther Thorson

Citations in the corpus

• When Do Audiences Verify? How Perceptions About Message and Source Influence Audience Verification of News Headlines (2020, background): “In this article, we argue that audience verification requires an extra cognitive effort, one that audiences may generally be unwilling to expend or they may fail to recognize the situations in which verification is warranted (Edgerly, 2017; Wineburg & McGrew, 2017).”
• The head and heart of news avoidance: How attitudes about the news media relate to levels of news consumption (2021, background): “The shift toward a more accessible and abundant news environment is not without significant cognitive costs of knowing how to navigate it, particularly amid concerns about news bias, distrust, and fake news (Edgerly, 2017; Schwarzenegger, 2020; Van Duyn and Collier, 2019).”