Audience Engagement with COVID-19 News: The Impact of Lockdown and Live Coverage, and the Role of Polarization
| العنوان: | Audience Engagement with COVID-19 News: The Impact of Lockdown and Live Coverage, and the Role of Polarization |
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| المؤلفون: | Katherine Kondor, Sabina Mihelj, Václav Štětka |
| المصدر: | Journalism Studies. 23:569-587 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | business.industry, Freedom of the press, Communication, 05 social sciences, Polarization (politics), Public debate, 050801 communication & media studies, Public relations, Consumption (sociology), 0506 political science, Digital media, Eastern european, Politics, 0508 media and communications, Political science, 050602 political science & public administration, business, Media event |
| الوصف: | Existing research on media and the COVID-19 pandemic is largely based on quantitative data, focused on digital media, limited to single-country studies, and often West-centred. As such, it has limited capacity to provide a holistic account of the causes and consequences of audience engagement with COVID-19 news, or to consider the impact of systemic political and media factors. To compensate for that, we examine a large set of qualitative interviews and media diaries collected in four eastern European countries during the first wave of the pandemic. We show that changes in news consumption – including the resurgence of television and decline of print consumption – were not driven solely by audience demand for up-to-date information, but also by practical constrains of home-bound life in lockdown, and the introduction of live briefings. Our findings underscore disruption and uncertainty as key elements of audience experiences and highlight the markedly privatized and depoliticized nature of public debate in the early phase of the pandemic. We argue that the pandemic was an unpredictable, open-ended, and exhausting media event with high potential for divisiveness and polarization, especially in contexts marked by low levels of media freedom, declining democratic standards, and elite-led politicization of the crisis. |
| تدمد: | 1469-9699 1461-670X |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::1ecafa977f9c38f550009d7f8117f035 https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2021.1931410 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........1ecafa977f9c38f550009d7f8117f035 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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