{"id":2580,"date":"2016-05-20T09:06:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T09:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:55","slug":"many-access-news-on-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/05\/20\/many-access-news-on-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Many access news on smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a number of recent research studies many people are now using their smartphones. A <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/mobile-first-news-how-people-use-smartphones-to\">report from the Knight Foundation<\/a> recently found that , 89% of the U.S. mobile population (144 million users) now access news using a smartphone.<br \/>\nAlso released this week a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.org\/2016\/05\/05\/long-form-reading-shows-signs-of-life-in-our-mobile-news-world\/\">Pew report on engagement and reading of news<\/a> by American mobile phone users from the Pew research center which examines the willingness of users to read long stories on their phone.<br \/>\nThis echoes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnewsreport.org\/\">Reuters Digital News report<\/a> which found a global rise in access to news on mobile and social media platforms.\u00a0 This also featured in its <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalnewsreport.org\/publications\/2016\/predictions-2016\/\">2016 predictions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the UK Ofcom also found that in 2015 the UK was a mobile society with paper news consumption declining, TV remaining popular and online news consumption rising.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a number of recent research studies many people are now using their smartphones. A report from the Knight Foundation recently found that , 89% of the U.S. mobile population (144 million users) now access news using a smartphone. Also released this week a Pew report on engagement and reading of news by American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,241,69,101,297,86],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","tag-journalism","tag-media-and-communication","tag-mobile-technology","tag-news","tag-newspapers","tag-telephones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}