Sharing the News
By Piotr S. Bobkowski. Fix What You Can, 2015
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This study examined the joint effect of message and personality attributes on online news sharing. In two experiments (N = 270, N = 275), readers indicated their likelihood to share news representing two content domains and three informational utility dimensions. A moderated mediation path analysis was used. On average, news consumers shared news containing informational utility. Opinion leaders shared news irrespective of informational utility because they discerned informational utility in news that, objectively speaking, lacked such utility. In one experiment, opinion leaders also were more likely than nonleaders to share news perceived to contain informational utility.
Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media (2020, background): “The main effect found for news source aligns with prior evidence and confirms users’ greater reluctance to share news from non-mainstream sources as compared to mainstream sources on social media (Bobkowski, 2015; Fletcher & Park, 2017; Stroud et al., 2016).”
- What’s in a post? How sentiment and issue salience affect users’ emotional reactions on Facebook (2020, background): “In the realm of (political) online communication, studies have shown that users are more likely to share information online that they perceive as relevant to themselves and their peers (Bobkowski, 2015).”