News Sharing in Social Media: A Review of Current Research on News Sharing Users, Content, and Networks
By Anna Sophie Kümpel, Veronika Karnowski, Till Keyling. 2015
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This article provides a review of scientific, peer-reviewed articles that examine the relationship between news sharing and social media in the period from 2004 to 2014. A total of 461 articles were obtained following a literature search in two databases (Communication & Mass Media Complete [CMMC] and ACM), out of which 109 were deemed relevant based on the study’s inclusion criteria. In order to identify general tendencies and to uncover nuanced findings, news sharing research was analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Three central areas of research—news sharing users, content, and networks—were identified and systematically reviewed. In the central concluding section, the results of the review are used to provide a critical diagnosis of current research and suggestions on how to move forward in news sharing research.
Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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- From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models (2023, background): “Digital and social media have become a major source of political news dissemination (Hermida et al., 2012; Kümpel et al., 2015; Hermida, 2016) with unprecedentedly high user engagement rates (Mustafaraj and Metaxas, 2011; Velasquez, 2012; Garimella et al., 2018).”
- Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media (2020, background): “Prior news sharing experience indicates the frequency with which users engage in news sharing as an online activity on social media (Kalogeropoulos et al., 2017; Kümpel et al., 2015) and would not only induce familiarity and confidence but also ritualize users to such activities (Lee & Ma, 2012).”