Below is a list of my publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters.

For citation counts, see Google Scholar.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. Shehata, A., Andersen, K., Ekström, M., & Östlund, E. (2026). The Promises and Limits of Solutions Journalism: How Controversy Conditions Effects on Emotions and Attitudes in Response to News About Climate Change. Accepted for publication in International Journal of Press/Politics.
  2. Andersen, K., Djerf-Pierre, M., Shehata, A., Zuiderveld, M., & Åhrén, C. (2026). Can Solutions Journalism Counter News Avoidance? A Choice Experiment Examining Effects on Emotions, Self-Efficacy, and News Engagement. Accepted for publication in Journalism.
  3. Schmøkel, R. W., Andersen, K., & Skovsgaard, M. (2026). The Matthew Effect of Social Media Algorithms: News Avoidance and Polarisation of News Consumption. Digital Journalism, online first. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  4. Andersen, K., Hopmann, D. N., Langman, K., Schemer, C., & Skovsgaard, M. (2026). Is News Avoidance a Democratic Problem or a Healthy Audience Behavior? How Different Understandings Relate to Knowledge, Efficacy, and Life Satisfaction. Mass Communication and Society, online first. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  5. Andersen, K., Shehata, A., Skovsgaard, M., & Strömbäck, J. (2026). Selective News Avoidance: Consistency and Temporality. Communication Research, 53(3), 291–318. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  6. Andersen, K., & Shehata, A. (2025). Challenging the Spiral of Negativity: A Longitudinal Choice Experiment on the Preference for Valenced News and Reinforcement of Societal Beliefs. The International Journal of Press/Politics, online first. ACCESS HERE
  7. Skovsgaard, M., Heiselberg, L., & Andersen, K. (2024). The Context-Dependent Demand for Watchdog Journalism: Dynamics in Audience Expectations for Journalists’ Role Performance. Journalism Practice, 18(9), 2454–2475. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  8. Andersen, K., Toff, B., & Ytre-Arne, B. (2024). Introduction: What We (Don’t) Know About News Avoidance. Journalism Studies, 25(12), 1367–1384. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  9. Andersen, K., Djerf-Pierre, M., & Shehata, A. (2024). The Scary World Syndrome: News Orientations, Negativity Bias, and the Cultivation of Anxiety. Mass Communication and Society, 27(3), 502–524. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  10. Shehata, A., Thomas, F., Glogger, I., & Andersen, K. (2024). Belief Maintenance as a Media Effect: A Conceptualization and Empirical Approach. Human Communication Research, 50(1), 1–13. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  11. Aarøe, L., Andersen, K., Skovsgaard, M., Svith, F., & Schmøkel, R. (2024). The journalistic preference for extreme exemplars: Educational socialization, psychological biases, or editorial policy? Journal of Communication, 74(1), 48–62. ACCESS HERE
  12. Andersen, K., Shehata, A., & Andersson, D. (2023). Alternative News Orientation and Trust in Mainstream Media: A Longitudinal Audience Perspective. Digital Journalism, 11(5), 833–852. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  13. Ohme, J., Andersen, K., Albæk, E., & de Vreese, C. H. (2022). Anything Goes? Youth, News, and Democratic Engagement in the Roaring 2020s. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 27(3), 557–568. ACCESS HERE
  14. Andersen, K. (2022). Realizing Good Intentions? A Field Experiment of Slow News Consumption and News Fatigue. Journalism Practice, 16(5), 848–863. ACCESS HERE
  15. Boukes, M., Aalbers, L., & Andersen, K. (2022). Political Fact or Political Fiction? The Agenda-Setting Impact of the Political Fiction Series Borgen on the Public and News Media. Communications, 47(1), 50-72. ACCESS HERE
  16. Andersen, K., Johansson, J., Johansson, B., & Shehata, A. (2022). Maintenance and Reformation of News Repertoires: A Latent Transition Analysis. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 99(1), 237–261. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  17. Skovsgaard, M., Andersen, K., & Heiselberg, L. (2022). Vagthund eller skødehund? Efterspørgslen på kritisk journalistik under coronakrisen [Watchdog or lapdog? The demand for critical journalism during the corona crisis]. Politica, 54(4), 321–342. ACCESS HERE
  18. Shehata, A., Johansson, J., Andersen, K., & Johansson, B. (2022). Climate Change Frame Acceptance and Resistance: Extreme Weather, Consonant News and Personal Media Orientations. Mass Communication and Society, 25(1), 51–76. ACCESS HERE
  19. Andersen, K., van Dalen, A., Hopmann, D. N., Skovsgaard, M., & Albæk, E. (2021). Tilliden til de danske journalister og nyhedsmedier: i forfald eller ej? [Trust in Danish journalists and news media: in decay or not?] Politica, 53(3), 125–149. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  20. Shehata, A., Andersson, D., Glogger, I., Hopmann, D. N., Andersen, K., Kruikemeier, S., & Johansson, J. (2021). Conceptualizing Long-Term Media Effects on Societal Beliefs. Annals of the International Communication Association, 45(1), 75–93. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  21. Andersen, K., & Strömbäck, J. (2021). Media Platforms and Political Learning: The Democratic Challenge of News Consumption on Computers and Mobile Devices. International Journal of Communication, 15(2021), 300–319. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  22. Skovsgaard, M., & Andersen, K. (2020). Conceptualizing News Avoidance: Towards a Shared Understanding of Different Causes and Potential Solutions. Journalism Studies, 21(4), 459–476. ACCESS HERE
  23. Andersen, K., Skovsgaard, M., Pedersen, R. T. (2019). The X Factor of Opportunity Structures: How Grab and Wrap Effects of Entertainment Create Inadvertant News Audience in a High-Choice Media Environment. European Journal of Communication, 34(5), 535–551. ACCESS HERE
  24. Andersen, K. (2019). An Entrance for the Uninterested: Who Watches Soft News and How Does It Affect Their Political Participation? Mass Communication and Society, 22(4), 487–507. ACCESS HERE
  25. Andersen, K., & Hopmann, D. N. (2018). Compensator, Amplifier, or Distractor? The Moderating Role of Informal Political Talk on the Effect of News Media Use on Current Affairs Learning Among First-Time Voters. Political Communication, 35(4), 634–654. ACCESS HERE
  26. Andersen, K., Skovsgaard, M., Albæk, E., & de Vreese, C. H. (2017). The Engaging Effect of Exemplars: How an Emotional Reaction to (Dis)Similar People in the News Media Affects Political Participation. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 22(4), 490–509. ACCESS HERE
  27. Andersen, K., & Larsen, E. G. (2016). Hvilken periode skal analyseres? Uge 46 som dataindsamlingsstrategi i journalistikforskningen [Selecting a Sample: Week 46 as Data Collection Strategy in Journalism Studies]. Journalistica, 2016(1), 126-146. ACCESS HERE
  28. Andersen, K., Bjarnøe, C., Albæk, E., & de Vreese, C. H. (2016). How News Type Matters. Indirect Effects of Media Use on Political Participation Through Knowledge and Efficacy. Journal of Media Psychology, 28(3), 111–122. ACCESS HERE
  29. Andersen, K., de Vreese, C. H., & Albæk, E. (2016). Measuring Media Diet in a High-Choice Environment – Testing the List-Frequency Technique. Communication Methods and Measures, 10(2–3), 81–98. ACCESS HERE

Books

  1. Andersen, K., Blach-Ørsten, M., Hopmann, D. N., Mayerhöffer, E., & Skovsgaard, M. (2025). Nyheder, mediebrug og magt. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. OPEN ACCESS HERE
  2. Andersen, K., Ohme, J., Bjarnøe, C., Bordacconi, M. J., Albæk, E., de Vreese, C. (2021). Generational Gaps in Political Media Use and Civic Engagement. From Baby Boomers to Generation Z. Routledge. OPEN ACCESS HERE

Book chapters

Andersen, K., & Edgerly, S. (2025). News Avoidance. In A. Nai, M. Grömping, & D. Wirz (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (pp. 63-66). Edward Elgar Publishing. OPEN ACCESS HERE

Andersen, K., & Skovsgaard, M. (2024). Vælgernes nyhedsforbrug og -undgåelse [Voters’ news consumption and news avoidance]. In K. M. Hansen & R. Stubager (Eds.), Partiledernes kamp om midten: Folketingsvalget 2022 [Party leaders’ battle for the center: The 2022 Danish national election] (pp. 473–490). Djøf Forlag.

Skovsgaard, M., & Andersen, K. (2022). News Avoidance. In G. A. Borchard (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Journalism (Vol. 1, pp. 1099-1103). SAGE Publications. ACCESS HERE and OPEN ACCESS HERE

Shehata, A., Glogger, I., & Andersen, K. (2021). The Swedish way: How ideology and media use influenced the formation, maintenance and change of beliefs about the coronavirus. In P. Van Aelst & J. G. Blumler (Eds.), Political communication in the time of coronavirus (pp. 209–223). Routledge. OPEN ACCESS HERE

Andersen, K., & Skovsgaard, M. (2021). Findes der nyhedsørkener i den kommunale valgkamp? [Are there news deserts in local election campaigns?]. In J. Elklit, S. Welling Hansen, & U. Kjær (Eds.), KV17: Analyser af kommunalvalget 2017 [KV17: Analyses of the 2017 local election] (pp. 163–182). Syddansk Universitetsforlag.

Beyer, A., Knudsen, E., Andersen, K., & Shehata, A. (2021). Political media effects in a Nordic perspective. In E. Skogerbø, Ø. Ihlen, N. N. Kristensen, & L. Nord (Eds.), Power, communication, and politics in the Nordic countries (pp. 347–363). Nordicom. OPEN ACCESS HERE

PHD THESIS

Andersen, K. (2018). The News Media as a Mobilizing Agent: Understanding the Underlying Mechanisms Linking News Media Use and Political Participation in Today’s High-Choice Media Environment. Odense: Print & Sign, SDU. ISBN: 978-87-93496-98-9.

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