Media multitasking during political news consumption: A relationship with factual and subjective political knowledge

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Highlights:

• We examine the relationship between media multitasking and political knowledge.

• Multitasking while consuming news is related to lower factual political knowledge.

• Multitasking while consuming news is related to greater knowledge miscalibration.

• Bundled multitasking has stronger effects on knowledge than pairwise multitasking.

摘要

•We examine the relationship between media multitasking and political knowledge.•Multitasking while consuming news is related to lower factual political knowledge.•Multitasking while consuming news is related to greater knowledge miscalibration.•Bundled multitasking has stronger effects on knowledge than pairwise multitasking.

论文关键词:Media multitasking,Subjective political knowledge,Factual political knowledge

论文评审过程:Received 4 June 2015, Revised 26 November 2015, Accepted 2 December 2015, Available online 17 December 2015, Version of Record 17 December 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.12.015