News Attention in a Mobile Era

Dunaway, Johanna; Searles, Kathleen; Sui, Mingxiao; Paul, Newly

doi:10.1093/jcmc/zmy004

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“…A smaller screen can challenge the extraction of information (Dunaway 2019) and make it difficult to observe certain parts of news messages, such as social recommendations, which have the potential to increase political engagement of citizens. Dunaway et al (2018) furthermore find smartphone and tablet users to be less likely to notice links in news articles, relative to desktop computer users. This pattern, moreover, may prevent following up on news via links in mobile devices.…”

Section: Mobile News Browsingmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Research points to the fact that the social environment of news use can be a main driver for why people become active about the news they consume. Against the background that certain news elements receive less attention on a mobile (Dunaway et al 2018), it is conceivable that mobile browsing on social media results in less attention to social cues, be it because of screen size, less attention due to exposure in stimulus-rich surroundings or simply because the time span for engagement with an information item is shorter (Nelson and Lei 2018). Although mobile news browsing can also lead to indepth engagement (Matsa, 2016), e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research so far has found that people attend news differently on mobile devices, i.e. spend less time with it, show higher cognitive effort, and scroll more quickly through it (Al Ghamdi et al 2016;Chae and Kim 2004;Dunaway et al 2018). In addition, a great number of studies has explored the effects of digital news use on campaign engagement (e.g.…”

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Mobile but Not Mobilized? Differential Gains from Mobile News Consumption for Citizens’ Political Knowledge and Campaign Participation

Ohme

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Especially during election times, news is an indispensable means for citizens to make informed political decisions. The ubiquitous information access of mobile devices creates the potential for increasing news use among citizens in general and specifically during campaign time. However, little is known about the outcomes of this new way of accessing news, although research suggests that less attention and involvement are dedicated to news accessed on a mobile phone. This study therefore applies the differential gains perspective to mobile news use during the 2015 Danish national election campaign. We utilize a pre-and post-election panel survey and a smartphone-based media diary study among Danish voters (n ¼ 1108) to test whether news app use and mobile browsing affect political knowledge and campaign participation differently than other types of campaign news exposure. Results suggest equal gains for citizens' political knowledge, but differential gains for mobilizing effects of mobile news use.

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“…For example, some scholars argue that social media use does not lead to increased political knowledge (Richey & Zhu, 2015;Shehata, Hopmann, Nord, & Hoijer, 2015). Lower barriers for accessing information does not necessarily equate to increased attention to political information (Dunaway, Searles, Sui, & Paul, 2018). Additionally, unlike actively seeking political information, incidental exposure to political information via social media may not lead to increased political knowledge (Gil de Zúñiga, Weeks, & Ardèvol-Abreu, 2017).…”

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“…Yet, others demonstrate that a reliance on the internet and social media has the capacity to increase specific types of knowledge, such as knowledge about presidential debates (Gottfried, Hardy, Holbert, Winneg, & Jamison, 2017). Generally, the effects of the relationship between internet use and political knowledge are dependent on individual characteristics like age and education (Yoo and Gil de Zúñiga, 2014), media behaviors like clicking on and sharing information (Beam, Hutchens, & Hmielowski, 2016), and device type (Dunaway, Searles, Sui, & Paul, 2018). How useful online access is for political knowledge also varies based on the quality of information and ability of users to discern quality sources (Urban & Schweiger, 2014).…”

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Digital Segregation: Gender, Occupation, and Access to Politics

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Britzman

2019

Social Science Computer Review

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In the United States, women often show less interest in politics, and under some conditions, perform worse than men on political knowledge tests. In an age where education levels have reached parity, we suggest one of the explanations for gender differences in political engagement might be due to selection of occupation. Past research has shown women and men segregate into different occupations due to early gender socialization, differences in interest, and structural barriers. It is possible that due to these segregation effects, women in traditional female occupations (e.g. education, health care, service work) may have less access to personal internet use and news sources during their work days. Using the 2014 General Social Survey, we create a new occupational typology based on access to the internet to explore whether individuals in certain sectors differ in their political engagement and how these occupations are also divided by gender, race and class. Then we apply the technology use measure to the 2016 American National Election Study and find that technology access on the job does not seem to be related to political knowledge, once we account for education, which offers some insight into the mechanisms by which individuals gain this knowledge. In addition, the interaction between total media consumption and tech use suggests that the gap in political knowledge between men and women is stubbornly persistent.

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Corporate marketing teams sometimes promote misleading, unverified, or utterly false claims. For example, Goop has faced considerable criticism for marketing numerous products (e.g., vaginal steaming, coffee enemas, jade eggs) that do not yield their advertised medical benefits. New Balance falsely claimed that their technologically advanced sneakers strategically activate the glutes, quads, hamstrings, and calves, enabling their wearers to tone and burn extra calories. Advertisements for the herbal supplement, Airborne, claimed that it helps to ward off harmful bacteria and germs, preventing the flu and common cold; such benefits were, however, unestablished. Misleading and false advertisements such as these are not a new phenomenon; famous examples include Stanley's Snake Oil and Listerine's claims in the 1970s that their mouthwash cured colds. But recent developments in digital media (and social media, in particular) mean that such falsehoods spread more rapidly and more widely than ever before. A single tweet can, for example, reach millions of people in an instant. In this context, it has become increasingly important to understand how consumers make judgments about the veracity of information, and how they update their beliefs in the face of retractions or other feedback.What processes drive consumers' judgments about the veracity of information, and what processes play a role in belief revision (i.e., the correction of false beliefs)? Oftentimes, advertisers appeal to people's emotions, insecurities, and motivations. This "hot cognition" occurs within a system tuned to learn and update beliefs about the world. People's belief in falsehoods (and their ability to update their beliefs) depends on the same processes that give rise to accurate beliefs, not upon unique, special processes or strategies specific to any particular domain of research (Isberner &

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News Attention in a Mobile Era

Cited by 100 publications

References 24 publications

Mobile but Not Mobilized? Differential Gains from Mobile News Consumption for Citizens’ Political Knowledge and Campaign Participation

Mobile but Not Mobilized? Differential Gains from Mobile News Consumption for Citizens’ Political Knowledge and Campaign Participation

Digital Segregation: Gender, Occupation, and Access to Politics

The cognitive processes underlying false beliefs

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