Open AccessHabits and feelings for the informative coverage of the covid-19 during the confinement in Spain
Author(s) -
Ana Isabel Mercado Bernal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
trípodos/trípodos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2340-5007
pISSN - 1138-3305
DOI - 10.51698/tripodos.2020.49p169-183
Subject(s) - novelty , covid-19 , feeling , criticism , misinformation , journalism , sensationalism , consumption (sociology) , social media , psychology , anxiety , habit , advertising , social psychology , political science , sociology , media studies , medicine , business , social science , law , disease , pathology , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Home confinement, due to the Covid-19 health crisis, causes a change in daily routines. Among them, the habit of accessing news, even more in countries like Spain, one of the main sources of the disease and with a longer stay in homes. This article analyzes media consumption in the first week of confinement through an online survey (N = 530), and a subsequent wave (N = 300) to identify changes in reporting routines after one month of confinement, with quantitative and other qualitative questions, semi-structured. The results show that in the face of a greater informative interest in the first week, there has been a decrease in the time spent on news about the coronavirus due to sensations such as overinformation, stress or anxiety, or the absence of novelty, as well as a greater selection of media, social networks and journalists. There is also a criticism of misinformation, fake news, sensationalism, unethics in some news and constant doubt about the ideological intent of the information.