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September 24, 2025Digital JournalismOpen Access

The Role of Choice Architecture in Mitigating News Avoidance

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Comparative experiment finds choice architecture can mitigate news avoidance, highlighting the role of nudges.

News avoidance can lead to negative democratic outcomes, and using choice architecture may reduce this issue.
In a 2 × 2 comparative experiment with 804 participants, opting-in or opting-out significantly influenced news selection.
Participants who opted-out ended up seeing more news, indicating that inclusion by default helps counteract avoidance.
Civic duty nudges did not significantly affect news engagement, suggesting deeper citizenship norms may be harder to change.

Betakova et al. (2025) studied this question.

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