Book Review: Young children's play practices with digital tablets by Isabel Froés

Abstract

in Taipei were the least likely news consumers via their mobile phones. Interestingly, this difference did not appear statistically significant in the survey of 2017–2018. It is noteworthy that students under stricter news media supervision in cities (e.g., Shanghai) reportedly perceived mobile news to be more credible than those living in cities where press freedom is ranked higher (e.g., Taipei). This appears both counter-intuitive and fascinating. This timely and much-needed work paves the way for future research concerning news consumption behavior and its relationship with mobile technologies. Wei and Lo argue that mobile technologies afford users portability, interactivity, and mobility. Researchers can, for example, study how such affordances influence ordinary users’ sense of interpersonal distance between both journalists and governments. This may influence the extent to which users perceive freedom from these affordances. It is possible that mobility or portability that is often interpreted as a democratizing affordance may close the distance between government, journalists, and users. Thus, it may be important to consider not only how users are motivated to seek information through mobile phones, but also whether they perceive surveillance by political actors. By extension, understanding the affordances of mobile news from the perspectives of journalists and government may also strengthen our understanding of mobile communication in a civil society.