Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries

被引：124

作者：

Van Aelst, Peter ^{[1
]}

Toth, Fanni ^{[2
]}

Castro, Laia ^{[3
]}

Stetka, Vaclav ^{[2
]}

de Vreese, Claes ^{[4
]}

Aalberg, Toril ^{[5
]}

Cardenal, Ana Sofia ^{[6
]}

Corbu, Nicoleta ^{[7
]}

Esser, Frank ^{[3
]}

Hopmann, David Nicolas ^{[8
]}

Koc-Michalska, Karolina ^{[9
,10
]}

Matthes, Joerg ^{[11
]}

Schemer, Christian ^{[12
]}

Sheafer, Tamir ^{[13
]}

Splendore, Sergio ^{[14
]}

Stanyer, James ^{[2
]}

Stepinska, Agnieszka ^{[15
]}

Strombock, Jesper ^{[16
]}

Theocharis, Yannis ^{[17
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

[2] Loughborough Univ, Loughborough, Leics, England

[3] Univ Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

[4] Univ Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

[5] Norwegian Univ Sci & Technol, Trondheim, Norway

[6] Univ Oberta Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

[7] Nat Univ Polit Studies & Publ Adm, Bucharest, Romania

[8] Univ Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

[9] Audencia Business Sch, Nantes, France

[10] Univ Silesia, Katowice, Poland

[11] Univ Vienna, Vienna, Austria

[12] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Mainz, Germany

[13] Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

[14] Univ Milan, Milan, Italy

[15] Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Poznan, Poland

[16] Univ Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

[17] Univ Bremen, Bremen, Germany

来源：

DIGITAL JOURNALISM | 2021年 / 9卷 / 09期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会;

关键词：

Media use; health crisis; comparative survey; media trust; SOCIAL MEDIA; PUBLIC REACTIONS; PEOPLE WATCH; TRUST; ONLINE; COMMUNICATION; CONSUMPTION; ASSOCIATION; DEPENDENCY; SKEPTICISM;

D O I：

10.1080/21670811.2021.1943481

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

Exogenous shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic unleashes multiple fundamental questions about society beyond public health. Based on the classical concept of 'need for orientation' and the literature on the role of the media in times of crisis, we investigate to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic affected news consumption in comparative perspective. Based on a two-wave panel survey in 17 mostly European countries, our study targets the role of both legacy news brands (TV, radio, newspapers) and so-called contemporary news media (Internet-based and social media) during this global health crisis. Our results show an overall rise of news use across countries, but only for some types of news media. We find an increase of TV news consumption, and a higher reliance on social media and the Internet for news and information. This indicates that in times of crises and an unusually strong need for orientation, people mainly turn to news sources that are easily available and offer a more immediate coverage. Furthermore, we find the rise in news use to be mainly present among those who already have a higher level of trust in legacy media and among people that were more concerned about the impact of the pandemic.

引用

页码：1316 / 1346

页数：31

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