Exposure to news grows less fragmented with an increase in mobile access.

ABSTRACT: 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. Contrary to many of those claims, this paper uses observational multiplatform data capturing both desktop and mobile use to demonstrate that coexposure to diverse news is on the rise, and that ideological self-selection does not explain most of that coexposure. We show that mainstream media outlets offer the common ground where ideologically diverse audiences converge online, though our analysis also reveals that more than half of the US online population consumes no online news, underlining the ris

SUBMITTER: Yang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7682382 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature