Block, Hide or Follow : Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media
Block, Hide or Follow : Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media
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Digital Journalism ; 9 (2021), 8. - pp. 1018-1039. - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. - ISSN 2167-0811. - eISSN 2167-082X
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The consumption of news increasingly takes place in the context of social media, where users can personalize their repertoire of news through personal news curation practices such as following a journalistic outlet on Twitter or blocking news content from a Facebook friend. This article examines the prevalence and predictors of curation practices that have the potential to boost or limit social media news exposure. Results from a representative online survey distributed across thirty-six countries demonstrate that more than half of all news users on social media engage in such practices. Significant predictors of news-boosting curation are news interest and the willingness to engage in other news-related activities on social media. News-limiting practices on social media are linked to general news avoidance and, in the case of the US, political extremism, which might decrease the chances of incidental news exposure. News-boosting and news-limiting curation practices relate to a wider and more diverse repertoire of news sources online. Personal news curation practices can be conceptualized as forms of news engagement that have the potential to complement or counteract algorithmic news selection or partisan selective exposure, yet, these practices can also solidify existing divides in news use related to interest and avoidance.
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Personal news curation, social media, information repertoires, personalization, customization, news consumption, selective exposure, incidental news exposure
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MERTEN, Lisa, 2021. Block, Hide or Follow : Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media. In: Digital Journalism. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 9(8), pp. 1018-1039. ISSN 2167-0811. eISSN 2167-082X. Available under: doi: 10.1080/21670811.2020.1829978BibTex
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