Thinking, Knowing, or Thinking You Know: The Relationship Between Multiscreening and Political Learning

Stacey Frank Kanihan; Patrick C. Meirick; Claire M. Segijn

doi:10.1177/1077699020960066

Thinking, Knowing, or Thinking You Know: The Relationship Between Multiscreening and Political Learning

Stacey Frank Kanihan, Patrick C. Meirick, Claire M. Segijn

Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication

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Multiscreening (using a device like a smartphone while watching TV) is pervasive and may have beneficial and detrimental consequences for informed citizenship. This national survey (N = 847) examines how multiscreening during debates and TV news during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign was related to political learning. Multiscreening was associated with higher levels of thinking about politics (elaboration) and greater confidence about knowledge (information efficacy) but lower actual knowledge. The positive relationship with efficacy yet negative relationship with knowledge raises the possibility that multiscreening contributes to overconfidence. Implications for cognitive resource theories are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1104-1128
Number of pages	25
Journal	Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Volume	98
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020960066
State	Published - Dec 2021

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elaboration
multiscreening
political information efficacy
political knowledge
political learning

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