Mobile News Consumption: How Smartphone News Exposure Affects Political Knowledge, with Dr. Jakob Ohme
Social Media and Politics
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Why Is Visual Attention Important on Social Media?
Mobile platforms have fundamentally changed the way we experience news nowadays. Engagement with full articles of idios becomes much less important. We do not dedicate visual attention to information, we cannot learn anything from it. So this kind of thump stopper, if you want to call it like this, which posts is a thump stobper when you scrawl through it and which is not are very important to focus on.
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