News and Democratic Citizens in the Mobile Era

by Kathleen Searles and Johanna Dunaway

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190922508
• ISBN13: 9780190922504
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 170 Pages