Assignment task: Read the following two articles on incidental news and the rise of news avoidance: And answer the questions below
- Incidental News: How Young People Consume News on Social Media (course documents)
- The Rise of News Avoidance:
1. In what ways, if any, might the concepts of incidental news and news avoidance interrelated? Navigate the linked article in the piece on news avoidance to help bolster your claims. You may speculate here, but try to base the claims on what you've read in this week's articles.
2. Take up one of the concepts in the piece on news avoidance or incidental news (for instance, the connect btw the lack of political engagement and news avoidance in women, or ambient journalism, or another concept of interest) and explore it further. What did you learn about it from reading, and what questions would you hope to have answered if you were to look further into it?