Warum wir trotz Internet schlechter informiert sind
und was wir dagegen tun können.

#informationoverload #newsavoidance #digitallesen #newsfeeds #journalismus #künstlicheintelligenz #ki

Lesen: https://www.matthiaszehnder.ch/wochenkommentar/trotz-internet-schlechter-informiert/
Hören: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1788913/episodes/18636522
Schauen: https://youtu.be/XbGzySdYNqY

More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/sep/01/news-avoidance-high-anxiety

#HackerNews #newsavoidance #anxiety #relief #mentalhealth #media #literacy #selfcare

Emotional toll of constant #NegativeNews has led to record-high #NewsAvoidance.

But people can stay informed without #doomscrolling:
Read news online, but skips videos, television and social media and set specific windows of time to read the news rather than staying immersed in that environment constantly.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/sep/01/news-avoidance-high-anxiety

#MentalHealth

That's me.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/sep/01/news-avoidance-high-anxiety

#collapse #NewsAvoidance

" #Newsavoidance can become “news aversion” (more emotional, more visceral), turning away from the #news not because of some deliberate rational judgment (“I’ll reduce my viewing a little, according to American Psychological Association guidelines”) but because of overwhelming feelings of #anxiety or disgust when confronted by certain stories or individuals."

Why #Democrats are switching off the news – a psychologist explains
https://theconversation.com/why-democrats-are-switching-off-the-news-a-psychologist-explains-248512

#emotionalwellbeing
#cognitiveoverload

#Media #Journalism #News #NewsAvoidance: "Q. How many people avoid the news in the United States?

A. According to this year’s Digital News Report, up to 43% say they avoid the news in some form. It doesn’t mean that 43% of the country is not consuming any news at all. But it’s a sign of a clear decline in interest in news. There is a smaller group of people that we call consistent news avoiders. They consume news less often than once a month or never, and this group is around 8% of the US public, which is still millions of people.

Q. Who are these news avoiders in the US?

A. A lot of things are similar across countries. These people are more likely to be younger and working-class and less likely to be college-educated. They are also slightly more likely to be women than men. Lack of interest in politics is a huge predictor, so people who are consuming little to no news (or avoiding news often) are less interested in politics and less likely to participate in political life.

But here’s one of the things that’s different about the US. In addition to those patterns, you also have a larger segment of people who are on the right ideologically and who are also avoiding news, and part of what they are expressing is dissatisfaction with conventional sources of journalism.

Q. What are the reasons they give for avoiding the news?

A. It’s a mix of things. There’s a set of people who emphasise that it’s not about the news at all, but about the structural barriers in their lives. They just feel like they don’t have time to focus on the news because they are taking care of three kids and an ageing parent and working full time, and it feels too exhausting to make time for the news at the end of the day.

But there’s another segment of people who emphasise that it’s about the news itself, and here it’s a mix of things ranging from an emphasis on how anxiety-inducing the news itself can be to frustrations with sensationalism..."

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/why-millions-americans-avoid-news-and-what-it-means-us-election

Nachrichtenmüdigkeit ist eine der großen Sorgen der Medienwelt. Konstruktiver Journalismus soll Abhilfe schaffen. Welche Zukunft er hat, darum geht es in der vorerst letzten Folge von „Zurück zum Thema“.

#Journalismus #KonstruktiverJournalismus #Medien #Nachrichtenmüdigkeit #NewsAvoidance #ZurückZumThema

https://detektor.fm/gesellschaft/zurueck-zum-thema-konstruktiver-journalismus-2?utm_campaign=share_on_mastodon&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_source=mastodon

#Journalism #Media #News #TV #Newspapers #NewsAvoidance: "A few serious news media will survive as special-interest publications, like ham-radio magazines in bygone days. Their content is mostly argued about by well-educated men with polarised views, notes the Reuters Institute. Politicians will disproportionately woo this group, ignoring the apathetic mainstream.

The no-news era will change politics. “If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be,” wrote the American founding father Thomas Jefferson. Expect rising abstention at elections, as is already happening in France. Polarisation pushed turnout in the US’s 2020 election to 66 per cent, the highest since 1908, but that should prove a peak. Internet influencers may displace TV personalities such as Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy as election-winners. And with citizens losing interest, leaders will find it easier to dismantle democracy à la Viktor Orbán.

We marvel at Russians, switched off and immobilised while their government commits horrors. That could be us very soon." https://www.ft.com/content/451e7466-7a91-4784-aa37-02993ff0fc9e