Please translate the German word "News-Deprivierten" to English. I am searching communities about it

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Hi

Please translate the German word “News-Deprivierten” to English. I even don’t understand the original word in German.

I am searching communities about it. Can’t find anything with DDG.

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Qualität der Medien

38 Prozent zählen zu den News-Deprivierten

Junge Erwachsene konsumieren auf ihrem Smartphone nur sieben Minuten News pro Tag, wie aus einer Studie der Uni Zürich hervorgeht. Das ist für eine Demokratie problematisch, finden die Autoren des Jahrbuchs Qualität der Medien 2022.

Thank you

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In the context of the US election, you’ll find mentions of ‘low information voters’ to refer to the voters who aren’t tightly following the news.

‘Low information people’ might be a way to describe these people outside of the context of the elections.

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are there any forums/communities for ‘news deprived’ / ‘low information people’?

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Hmmm. What about https://www.srf.ch/ or https://www.swissinfo.ch/ ? If you live in Switzerland, you already pay for them.

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I feel you might be misunderstanding the concept entirely.

This isn’t really about people for whom not following news is a core part of their identity. It’s people who just don’t care about news at all, and don’t think about the subject at all. Why would they be talking about a subject they’re not interested in?

To make an analogy, you can find forums where people interested in football talk about football. You won’t find a forum where people not interested in football talk about how little they care about football.

You can obviously find communities where people mostly fit the low information mold, but they’re going to be talking about whatever it it is that community is interested in, not about their information consumption habits.

(If you’re interested in the concept of mindfully not following the news, e.g. because you care too much and find it upsetting, then that kind of thing exists too. I think “news detox” might be what it’s usually called? But it really isn’t what the 46% number is about.)

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Then I also misunderstood it, looks like. For me “deprived” means to lack something essential, like “sleep deprived”. So I was also wondering how it is possible to be deprived of news if they are everywhere and it is difficult to avoid information.

If you are not interested in something, well, you are “not interested”, not “deprived”.

P.S. Is it a Jedi mind trick to make you think that following news is essential?

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Another example of “outstanding” journalism. Other than in the title “News-Deprivierten” makes exactly 0 appearances in the persoenlich.com article. They speak of “Nachrichten-Abstinenz” (“News abstinence”) which, if you ask me, is another concept entirely and is likely to have communities devoted to it.

On top of that, the 7 minutes per day of smartphone news exposure they seem to portray as little and unsufficient seems plenty to me. 7 minutes every day is 50 minutes per week, there aren’t that many important things happening that they need constant updating. There may be a problem from the standpoint of the quality of the news consumed but the article doesn’t address that.

The swissinfo.ch article you (@Dr.PI) linked is more on point and actually addresses what makes news deprivation. They address price, articles being used more than once and lack of local news titles.

I’m joining my voice to the question of which concept @Andrews1998 is searching a community for as the answers can vary significantly whether it’s one, the other or a different third one. In the mean time, based on this singular data point of two articles, I’d take my news on swissinfo.ch rather than persoenlich.com

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Unless we are talking about self-deprivation, perhaps.

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I count with the self-deprived :), at least in terms of general news. I came to the conclusion that spending my valuable time on things I actually do have control over was a better investment.

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