Motivations for sharing information and social support in social media: A comparative analysis of Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube, and Flickr

By Sanghee Oh, Sue Yeon Syn. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2015

340 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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In Communication

1. I. Anderson
2. Wendy Wood
3. Chei Sian Lee
4. Yin Leng Theng

In Sociology and Political Science

1. I. Anderson
2. Wendy Wood
3. Chei Sian Lee
4. Yin Leng Theng
5. A. Eagly
6. Benjamin Gardner
7. Andrea Campbell
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Citations in the corpus

• Why Students Share Misinformation on Social Media: Motivation, Gender, and Study-level Differences (2015, background): “Oh and Syn (2015) investigated and compared the factors motivating users to share information on different social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube, and Flickr).”
• Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures (2020, background): “The pressure to respond in kind on social media is felt broadly, given that both frequent and occasional users of five leading social media sites reported that reciprocity was a primary motivator (Oh & Syn, 2015).”