Information Seeking and Avoidance in the Covid-19 Pandemic as a Function of Political Ideology and National Context
A Survey Comparing the US and Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21616461 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helena Bilandzic (0000-0002-9694-9653, University of Augsburg, corresponding author), Jessica Gall Myrick (0000-0001-9944-5138, Pennsylvania State University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 2276-2289 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-0236 • E-ISSN: 1532-7027 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10410236.2023.2263220 |
| PMID | 37798832 |
| OpenAlex | W4387391979 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 49 |
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a globally heightened need for scientific information. At the same time, the abundance of information led to tendencies of media fatigue and information avoidance. Both information seeking and avoidance are embedded in a specific national context, in which conditions of and measures against the pandemic may differ dramatically. In addition, the pandemic quickly became entangled with political ideology. Using the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model (RISP) as a theoretical background, we investigate the role of national context and political ideology for information seeking and avoidance in a comparative survey in the U.S. and Germany during the early phase of the pandemic. Results show that the factors predicting information behavior are effective in both countries with only few differences: In both countries, perceived hazard characteristics, information norms and perceived information gathering capacity were related to higher information seeking and lower information avoidance. Ideology too is an important influence: Right-leaning ideology was associated with lower levels of information norms in both countries; but only in the US was right-leaning ideology connected to less perceived hazard characteristics and less negative affective responses. Results are discussed regarding their implications for the RISP model
Geography · German · Ideology · Information seeking · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Computer Science · Law · Media Influence and Health · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |