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

The influence of prior knowledge structures on website attitudes and behavioral intentions

“…Specifically within a computer mediated environment, a limited number of studies (e.g., Lee and Koo 2012;Chan, Song and Yao 2015;Schneider, Weinmann, Roth, Knop and Vorderer 2016;Ran, Yamamoto and Xu 2016) distinguish between Brucks' (1985) concepts of objective topic knowledge (i.e., information stored in memory) and subjective topic knowledge (i.e., perception of how much an individual thinks he/she knows). Friestad and Wright's (1994) concept of persuasion knowledge (i.e., beliefs about the marketing tactics and effects of web-based interventions) has also received scant attention (e.g., Vashish and Royne 2016; Ham and Nelson 2016), while Friestad and Wright's (1994) concept of agent knowledge (i.e.…”

Does Interpersonal Discussion Increase Political Knowledge? A Meta-Analysis

“…These studies were excluded not only because they are theoretically distinct but also because research has shown repeatedly that they yield fundamentally different results. For example, subjective (self-reported) measures yield different effects than objective measures (factual knowledge) because people tend to overestimate their own knowledge levels (Ran, Yamamoto, & Xu, 2016), and structural knowledge is affected differently from factual knowledge because identifying the relationships between political concepts is theoretically distinct from merely remembering the concepts (Eveland & Schmitt, 2015).…”

The POPC Citizen: Political Information in the Fourth Age of Political Communication

“…Multitasking, however, tends to reduce productivity in fulfilling the primary task (in this case: processing news) and affects learning negatively (e.g., Chen & Yan, 2016;Junco & Cotten, 2012;Wood et al, 2012; see also the chapters by David and by Xu & Wang, this volume). A recent study demonstrated that the general frequency of media multitasking (i.e., engaging in additional media activities such as text messaging, watching TV, or using SNS) during exposure to political news is negatively associated with general political knowledge, but positively related to subjective political knowledge (Ran, Yamamoto & Xu, 2016). Multitasking news users thus not only learn less while following the news, they also seem to overestimate their knowledge.…”