News and Democratic Citizens in the Mobile Era |
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| Author:
| Dunaway, Johanna
Searles, Kathleen |
| Series title: | Oxford Studies in Digital Politics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-092250-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2022 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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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 argue that attention and engagement suffer when people consume news on mobile devices, and then investigate the implications of these effects for the news industry and for an informed democratic citizenry. Drawing on both...
More DescriptionIn 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 argue that attention and engagement suffer when people consume news on mobile devices, and then investigate the implications of these effects for the news industry and for an informed democratic citizenry. Drawing on both laboratory and real-world studies, Dunaway and Searles bring the psychophysiology of news consumption to bear on the question of what we could lose in an information environment characterized by a dramatic shift in reliance on mobile devices.