News by choice: News avoidance among Sultan Qaboos University students: Motivations and behaviors through selective exposure theory
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Published online on March 07, 2026
Abstract
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Using the Selective Exposure Theory to examine how psychology affects the way people choose which information they will receive from digital sources, this study examined why students avoid the news. A sample of 394 university students (undergraduates & ...
Using the Selective Exposure Theory to examine how psychology affects the way people choose which information they will receive from digital sources, this study examined why students avoid the news. A sample of 394 university students (undergraduates & ...