Information fatigue Article Swipe
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· 2024
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/ujyp4
· OA: W4402813114
This entry embeds the concept of information fatigue in the issue-attention cycle and patterns of long-lasting media attention such as media hypes and storms. It summarizes the effects that intensive and long-lasting news coverage has on people’s minds. Information fatigue has been described with varying terms such as news fatigue, message fatigue, or issue fatigue. Information fatigue as a consequence of overexposure is important for political communication scholars since it can lead to news avoidance. The entry introduces the concept of issue fatigue as a type of information fatigue particularly relevant to political communication research. It summarizes research on the causes and consequences of information fatigue, which are important from a political communication perspective, such as news coverage characteristics or evaluations of the media coverage as influencing factors and news avoidance as one of the most researched consequences.
