The number of people that intentionally avoid the news is growing. This could have several personal and societal implications. Previous research exposed various motives to avoid news, which lead to different manifestations of news avoidance, and consequently different implications. However, so far less …

Inleiding Met een groeiend klantenbestand ondervindt Voedingsadviesbureau Esther van Etten momenteel een uitdaging: de wedstrijdsporters kunnen niet volledig worden voorzien van het benodigde naslagwerk bovenop het individuele advies. Om deze uitdaging het hoofd te bieden, geldt voor dit onderzoek de …

Immersive journalism (IJ) is often assumed to be inherently emotion-inducing. Through using inclusive technology, interaction possibilities and immersive narratives, the audience should ideally experience what feels like to be in a certain situation. However, for the most part we do not know to which …

There has been limited adoption of Immersive Journalism (IJ) by the audience; simultaneously, the audience’s perspective is rarely considered in the production and research of IJ. At this point, however, it is crucial to incorporate an audience perspective to identify potentially unintended effects of …

We leven in onzekere tijden en worden overspoeld door, veelal slecht, nieuws. Actuele gebeurtenissen zoals coronacrisis en de oorlog in Oekraïne maakt onze relatie met nieuws een ingewikkeld dilemma. Aan de ene kant wil je continu op de hoogte zijn van wat er speelt, en spreekt men zelfs van doom scrollen, …

Bij klassieke vormen van leiderschap worden de beslissingen van ‘bovenaf’ genomen. Maar in modernere vormen van bedrijfsvoering ontstaan bij werknemers meer zeggenschap en besluitvorming (Lamberts, 2018). Een HR-trend die hierop aansluit is ‘Continuous listening’ naar de medewerkers. Continuous listening …

Lower levels of news use are generally understood to be associated with less political engagement among citizens. But while some people simply have a low preference for news, others avoid the news intentionally. So far little is known about the relationship between active news avoidance and civic engagement …

Background Early structured mobilization has become a key element of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery programs to improve patient outcomes and decrease length of hospital stay. With the intention to assess and improve early mobilization levels, the 8-point ordinal John Hopkins Highest Level of Mobility …

Over the past years, innovative technologies (such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR)) have become more common within news organizations. These technologies allow users to immerse themselves in a virtual world. With these types of productions, the journalist tries …

This study investigates the degree of news avoidance during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. Based on two panel surveys conducted in the period April–June 2020, this study shows that the increased presence of this behavior, can be explained by negative emotions and feelings …