News in their Pockets: A Cross-City Comparative Study of Mobile News Consumption in Asia

ISBN: 9780197523728

Co-authors: Professor Lo Ven-hwei, Visiting Professor of Department of Journalism; Professor Wei Ran, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication, University of South Carolina
聯合作者：新聞系客座教授羅文輝教授、美國南卡羅萊納大學傳播學傑出榮休教授魏然教授

This book explores the societal, technological, and user-related factors in understanding why and how digitally savvy college students in Asia’s most mobile cities—Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei—seek news via the mobile phone, how they evaluate mobile news for credibility and usefulness, and the consequences of this practice: becoming engaged with mobile news, which then teaches them about current affairs. The analyses are situated at the intersection of technological advances from 3G to 4G and marked differences in political and media systems across the four cities, which jointly shape Asia’s new generations of citizens.