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Mobile News Consumption: How Smartphone News Exposure Affects Political Knowledge, with Dr. Jakob Ohme

Social Media and Politics

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The Effect of Devices, News Frames and Visual Attention on Political Learning

An eye tracking experiment that examined citizen's political learning using a mock up facebook news feat. To mimic the social media environment, this kind of endless scrolling, you and your colleagues developed an eye tracking experiment. And then we retract the gaze of participants on both devices while they were actually scrawling the news feet. After the exposure part, we ask a recall and recognition questions to people. So basically, what could they remember and what had they learnt from these posts?

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