Digital streams of news content delivered automatically to users through websites, applications, or social media platforms. Continuously updated sources of information organized chronologically or by relevance.
Compound formed from 'news' (Middle English 'newes', plural of 'new') and 'feed' (Old English 'fēdan', to nourish). The term emerged in the 1990s with RSS technology, metaphorically extending the concept of 'feeding' information to audiences.
The metaphor of 'feeding' information reveals how we conceptualize news consumption as a basic human need, like nutrition - and just like food, the quality of our information diet profoundly affects our mental health. Modern newsfeeds have created an always-on information environment that would be unimaginable to previous generations.
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