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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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How Does Mobile Media Use Affect Political Participation?

This study looked at how mobile news use might affect campaign participation. And we didn't find an effect on political learning, which kind of contradicts the study we did before. But we did find that there was a small, a moderating effect of mobile use when it comes to campaign participation. The people that actually had a lower consumption of mobile media, or can of like, got information, especially on social media, less from their mobile devices, had a stronger, or were stronger mobilized by this,. compared to the people who had a higher use of mobile media usage.

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