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This entry embeds the concept of information fatigue in the issue-attention cycle and patterns of long-lasting media attention such as media hypes and storms. It summarizes the effects that intensive and long-lasting news coverage has on people’s minds. Information fatigue has been described with varying terms such as news fatigue, message fatigue, or issue fatigue. Information fatigue as a consequence of overexposure is important for political communication scholars since it can lead to news avoidance. The entry introduces the concept of issue fatigue as a type of information fatigue particularly relevant to political communication research. It summarizes research on the causes and consequences of information fatigue, which are important from a political communication perspective, such as news coverage characteristics or evaluations of the media coverage as influencing factors and news avoidance as one of the most researched consequences.
Julia Metag (Tue,) studied this question.