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Ed Webb

Exposure to news grows less fragmented with an increase in mobile access | PNAS - 0 views

  • the increase in mobile access to news actually leads to higher exposure to diverse content and that ideological self-selection explains only a small percentage of co-exposure to news
  • more than half of Internet users in the United States do not use online news
  • the increasing divide between informed citizens and news avoiders
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  • The abundance of media options is a central feature of today’s information environment. Many accounts, often based on analysis of desktop-only news use, suggest that this increased choice leads to audience fragmentation, ideological segregation, and echo chambers with no cross-cutting exposure
  • mainstream media outlets offer the common ground where ideologically diverse audiences converge online
  • more than half of the US online population consumes no online news, underlining the risk of increased information inequality driven by self-selection along lines of interest
  • Our dataset traces news consumption across different devices and unveils important differences in news diets when multiplatform or desktop-only access is used.
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