Lena Song

Lena Song is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She studies media and information technologies, with a focus on their relationship to diversity and inequality. She is an affiliate of NYU Center for Social Media and Politics and Poverty Action Lab.

How Much Election News Do Americans Actually See on Their Phones?

Smartphones have become a primary gateway for consuming political news, but we know little about what individuals actually see on their phones. In new research, Guy Aridor, Tevel Dekel, Rafael Jiménez Durán, Ro’ee Levy, and Lena Song open the smartphone black box using novel content data and document individuals’ exposure to election-related content during the 2024 presidential election, as well as the drivers of this exposure.

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