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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
We live in an age of relentless information. The news pings, scrolls and streams into every corner of daily life and for many of us, it has simply become too much.
This book explores the growing phenomenon of news saturation: why ordinary people, including regular news users, increasingly tune out, switch off and step back. Drawing on cross-disciplinary research, it reveals how information overload, doomscrolling and news fatigue are reshaping our relationship with media and democracy.
This is essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of what news means - and doesn't mean - in a digitally saturated world.
Hallvard Moe is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bergen.
Brita Ytre-Arne is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bergen.
Chapter 1: Introduction: There Is Such a Thing as Too Much News
Chapter 2: Too Intrusive: News in the Attention Economy
Chapter 3: Too Trivial: News in Celebrity Culture
Chapter 4: Too Distressing: News in the Permacrisis
Chapter 5: Too Uncertain: News in Conditions of Doubt
Chapter 6: Too Distant: News in Everyday Life
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Better News