Ran Wei is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, USA. Ven-hwei Lo is Visiting Professor of Journalism in the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University and Editor of Communication and Society, a leading Chinese communication journal.

If cities are the future, then the four cities covered in News in Their Pockets are the cutting edge of the future. Ran Wei's and Ven-hwei Lo's rich exploration of how citizens in tech-saturated megalopolises use mobile connectivity for news should leave no doubt where the rest of the world will be in the coming years. It is a disorienting time, and we are in luck that they have offered themselves as trail guides to the world to come.

• Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 News Gone Mobile Chapter 2 Motivation, Perception, and Engagement Chapter 3 Motivations: Beyond Access Chapter 4 Consumption: Diverse and Rising Chapter 5 Engagement: The New Dimension Chapter 6 Perceptions: The Credibility Factor Chapter 7 Who Learns from Mobile News? Chapter 8 Modeling with Mediation Analysis Chapter 9 Conclusions Appendices References List of Subjects

Ran Wei is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, USA. Ven-hwei Lo is Visiting Professor of Journalism in the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University and Editor of Communication and Society, a leading Chinese communication journal.

If cities are the future, then the four cities covered in News in Their Pockets are the cutting edge of the future. Ran Wei's and Ven-hwei Lo's rich exploration of how citizens in tech-saturated megalopolises use mobile connectivity for news should leave no doubt where the rest of the world will be in the coming years. It is a disorienting time, and we are in luck that they have offered themselves as trail guides to the world to come.

• Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 News Gone Mobile Chapter 2 Motivation, Perception, and Engagement Chapter 3 Motivations: Beyond Access Chapter 4 Consumption: Diverse and Rising Chapter 5 Engagement: The New Dimension Chapter 6 Perceptions: The Credibility Factor Chapter 7 Who Learns from Mobile News? Chapter 8 Modeling with Mediation Analysis Chapter 9 Conclusions Appendices References List of Subjects