ISBN:
9780190922535
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Oxford studies digital politics series
Series Statement:
Oxford Scholarship Online
Series Statement:
Political Science
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dunaway, Johanna News and democratic
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
News audiences
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Smartphones Psychological aspects
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Smartphones Social aspects
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Journalism Technological innovations
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Communication and technology Psychological aspects
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Digital divide
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Attention
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Media Studies
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Sociology & anthropology
Abstract:
Though people frequently use mobile technologies for news consumption, evidence from several fields shows that smaller screens and slower connection speeds pose major limitations for meaningful reading. In 'News and Democratic Citizens in the Mobile Era', Johanna Dunaway and Kathleen Searles demonstrate the effects of mobile devices on news attention, engagement, and recall, and identify a key cognitive mechanism underlying these effects: cognitive effort. They advance a theory that is both old and new: the costs of information-seeking curb participatory behaviors unless the benefits outweigh them. For news consumers in the mobile era, for example, mobile devices increase the time, economic, and cognitive costs associated with information-seeking. Only for a small few do the benefits of attending to the news on mobile devices outweigh the costs.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190922504.001.0001
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