This study investigated how infographics may affect individuals' news processing, focusing
on multimodality and interactivity as its signature characteristics. News readers' prior …

The success of digital longforms in terms of readership and viral spread promotes an
optimistic perspective on innovative web journalism with regard to the attention …

This study established a multi-item measure of news overload. It also examined the effect of
media use on perceived news overload. Three findings merit notice. First, we identified …

We study the news reading behavior of several hundred thousand users on 65 highly visited
news sites. We focus on a specific phenomenon: users reading several articles related to a …

Information overload is one of the main challenges in the current educational context, where
the Internet has become a major source of information. According to the European Space for …

Background: Mobile curated (shortened) news is now increasingly popular. Each curated
news article is accompanied by a link that readers can click to read the full-length article on …

The proliferation of digital media has provided the public with an abundance of information
and pathways to engage with that information. Alongside the opportunities offered by this …

An experiment with 413 US participants was conducted to examine the role of animation in
environmental journalism. Results show that there was no consistent modality effect (live …

The increasing reliance on social media as a source of news, particularly among
adolescents, raises important questions for democracy regarding the potential of these …

How does presenting comments in a news article affect the ways that readers engage with
and retain information about news? This paper presents results from a controlled experiment …