Habits and feelings for the informative coverage of the covid-19 during the confinement in Spain

Abstract

Home confinement, due to the Covid-19 health crisis, causes a change in daily routines. Among them, the habit of accessing news, even more in countries like Spain, one of the main sources of the disease and with a longer stay in homes. This article analyzes media consumption in the first week of confinement through an online survey (N = 530), and a subsequent wave (N = 300) to identify changes in reporting routines after one month of confinement, with quantitative and other qualitative questions, semi-structured. The results show that in the face of a greater informative interest in the first week, there has been a decrease in the time spent on news about the coronavirus due to sensations such as overinformation, stress or anxiety, or the absence of novelty, as well as a greater selection of media, social networks and journalists. There is also a criticism of misinformation, fake news, sensationalism, unethics in some news and constant doubt about the ideological intent of the information.