Digital Literacy in Latin America: How Mobile, WhatsApp Users Experience Political Information

• In Event: Digital Measures

Brief Overview

Digital literacy is important, but it has thus far been theorized and tested on Western, desktop- and Facebook-centric users unconstrained by data caps. We theorize and test a new measure of digital literacy in Mexico and Colombia.

Authors

• Kevin Michael Munger, Pennsylvania State University-University Park

• Mateo Vasquez-Cortes, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

• Jorge Andres Gallego, Universidad del Rosario