Your smartphone as news source: is it a good replacement for the traditional newspaper?
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2017-06-26
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en
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In our modern day society there seems to be a shift from news platforms.
The traditional paper seems to be in decline and many people prefer reading the
news from their smartphones. Since smartphones offer more than just news, but
also other forms of information, contact with friends and family and games, this
could lead to all sorts of distractions. Even when not in use people are
constantly aware of the presence of the device and its possibilities. Because they
feel emotionally attached to the device, many smartphone users are constantly
aware of the presence, leading to disruption of the task they were originally
focussing on. When reading the news from a smartphone this would mean that
people would be distracted more when compared to paper. This because the
phone, even when it would not do anything but displaying the article, would
send out disrupting stimuli. An experiment was conducted (N=35) to test the
influence of reading platform on recall, mediated by distraction. The results
turned out to be very small and non-significant, though they did follow the
expected pattern. Therefore the effect does show signs of existence where future
research should further look at, though with larger test populations.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen