News that nudges: How media and personality impact behaviour

Martina Benvenuti is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD), which is one of the research institutes of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). She is  particularly interested in the dynamics of the integration of ICT in different educational settings (e.g. school, university, business).

Project description

In an age of rapid access to real-time information, media multi-tasking (engaging in two or more types of media simultaneously, e.g. using the Internet on a computer and watching television) has immediate and tangible impacts on the way individuals and populations make decisions. In this project, we will collate case studies of how news is reported in several countries (different cultural context) on various media platforms. This information will then be used to assess how these styles essentially become behavioral interventions, thereby impacting decision-making in a series of tasks. To identify relevant moderators between multiple media tasks and financial choices, we will also include measures of personality and cognitive performance. This project builds on an existing collaboration, which has already identified clear links between social media and well-being.