He vist al LSE Impact Blog l’entrada Smartphone-size screens make it harder to pay attention to and understand news stories on s’hi comenta un experiment on la mateixa informació es proporciona a mida de pantalla de portàtil, i a mida de smartphone.
L’estudi analitza el nivell de comprensió de les notícies:
As researchers interested in news and politics, these trends made us wonder about the consequences of all this on-the-go-consumption. Smartphones may make it possible for more people to seek out and consume news more often and in more places than ever before, but how does the use of smartphones affect the way in which we understand news?
L’efecte de la mida de la pantalla és important, és clar:
The idea that screen size matters should not surprise anyone who goes to a movie theatre, of course. Watching the latest blockbuster on your laptop is clearly a more muted experience than watching it in the theatre. (Indeed, some of the work on which our research is based focuses on screen size for entertainment media.) But the finding that changes in screen sizes matter, even for the relatively small shift from a laptop- to a smartphone-sized screen is relatively striking – especially given that our news content is not nearly as dramatic as the average film. We find evidence that cognitive access to news content varies, in statistically-significant ways, across rather small changes in screen size.
Certament, no és pas el mateix veure una pel·lícula a un cinema que veure-la a una tv de 40″, o que veure-la al mòbil. Potser és per la comoditat, però segurament també per la mida de la pantalla i la lògica relació amb la distractabilitat i l’atenció.
El mòbil ha universalitzat l’accés a la informació. Una altra cosa és, però, la qualitat del seu processament. En un món farci de “fake news”, això de la mida de la pantalla és rellevant. I al final de l’entrada del LSE Impact Blog, hi ha una menció política:
the impact of mobile technology on political engagement may be more muted than expected.
Interessant.