Studying incidental news
Antecedents, dynamics and implications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7477346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neta Kligler-Vilenchik (0000-0003-3470-3305, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Alfred Hermida (0000-0002-4632-3791, University of British Columbia), Sebastián Valenzuela (0000-0001-5991-7364, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Mikko Villi (0000-0001-6935-9386, University of Jyväskylä) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1025-1030 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464884920915372 |
| OpenAlex | W3023457246 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 19 |
In light of concerns about decreasing news use, a decline in interest in political news or even active avoidance or resistance of news in general, the idea of ‘incidental news’ has been seen as a possible remedy. Generally, ‘incidental news’ refers to the ways in which people encounter information about current events through media when they were not actively seeking the news. However, scholars studying incidental news through different theoretical and methodological perspectives have been arriving at differing evaluations of the significance and implications of this phenomenon – to the extent of downright contradictory findings. This introductory piece posits the aim of this special issue on Studying Incidental News: a conceptual clarification of incidental news exposure. In this issue, scholars coming from different approaches, ranging from cognitive processing, ecological models, emergent practices and a focus on platform affordances, show how different theoretical perspectives help account for various dimensions of incidental news consumption, and thus help explain the often conflicting findings that have been suggested so far
Affordance · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Consumption (sociology · Dynamics (music · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Media studies · Motivated reasoning · News media · News values · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Ecology · Social Psychology
Guerra Rusia-Ucrania en TikTok. La representación de la actualidad y su impacto
Relevance or Accuracy? The Importance of Relevance in News Worthwhileness on the Chinese Platform Douyin
“Por Instagram y todos los días”
Incidental Exposure and News Engagement
Taking a Break from News
The Mechanisms of “Incidental News Consumption”
Les publics de l’information en ligne
Politicized and Paranoid? Assessing Attitudinal Predictors of Alternative News Consumption
Accidently acquired? Examining the conditional indirect effects of social media incidental news exposure on knowledge of Covid-19
Perfiles informativos y rutas de consumo incidental
Amplifying the News
Don’t talk to strangers? The role of network composition, WhatsApp groups, and partisanship in explaining beliefs in misinformation about Covid-19 in Brazil
Academic explanatory journalism and emerging Covid-19 science
Let’s dance the news! How the news media are adapting to the logic of TikTok
Remember that?” A temporal perspective on how audiences make sense of the news
Accidentally Informed
Incidental exposure to news
Processing news on social media. The political incidental news exposure model (Pine)
Media Choice and Informed Democracy
Twittering the News
The Role of Engagement in Learning From Active and Incidental News Exposure on Social Media
Political News in the News Feed
News comes across when I’m in a moment of leisure”
Are people incidentally exposed to news on social media? A comparative analysis
Accidental exposure to politics on social media as online participation equalizer in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom
Effects of the News-Finds-Me Perception in Communication
The news-democracy narrative and the unexpected benefits of limited news consumption
The Matthew Effect in social media news use
Testing the inadvertency hypothesis
Incidentality on a continuum
Attracting the news
The ecology of incidental exposure to news in digital media environments
Decline in news content engagement or news medium engagement? A longitudinal analysis of news engagement since the rise of social and mobile media 2009–2012
Conceptualizing different forms of news processing following incidental news contact
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |