News sharing in social media: The effect of gratifications and prior experience

By Chei Sian Lee, Long Ma. Computers in Human Behavior, 2012

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Reducing Native Advertising Deception: Revisiting the Antecedents and Consequences of Persuasion Knowledge in Digital News Contexts (2018, background): “Beyond just reading news, the socially driven activities of liking and sharing news are especially prevalent motivators for those who consume news through online social networking sites (Choi, 2016; Lee & Ma, 2012).”
Why Students Share Misinformation on Social Media: Motivation, Gender, and Study-level Differences (2015, background): “The reasons behind news sharing on social media (Lee & Ma, 2012) and information sharing onmobile gaming sites (Lee, Goh, Chua, & Ang, 2010) were also studied.”
Social media engagement: What motivates user participation and consumption on YouTube? (2017, background): “Amongst other motives, entertainment was also found to positively influence social media interactivity (Hsu, Chang, Lin, & Lin, 2015), and can affect the decision to use social media (Lee & Ma, 2012).”
Why Users Share the News: A Theory of Reasoned Action-Based Study on the Antecedents of News-Sharing Behavior (2018, methodology): “…information seeking ( r = .88, p < .001), socializing ( r = .74, p < .001), status seeking ( r = .62, p < .001), and entertainment ( r = .86, p < .001) based on the wordings used in prior studies on news sharing behavior in the Asian context (Kang et al., 2013; Lee & Ma, 2012; Ma et al., 2011).”
The impact of perceived enjoyment, perceived reciprocal benefits and knowledge power on students' knowledge sharing through Facebook (2017, background): “Lee and Ma (2012) pointed out that social media empowers its users to create, share, and comment on news content, as well as provide themwith the opportunity to interact and collaborate with network members, thus changing the entire structure and nature of sharing news.”
Uses and Gratifications of digital photo sharing on Facebook (2016, neutral): “…the U&G of specific activities on Facebook, including music listening (Krause et al., 2014), sharing links (Baek, Holton, Harp, & Yaschur, 2011), participation in groups (Karnik, Oakley, Venkatanathan, Spiliotopoulos, & Nisi, 2013; Park, Kee, & Valenzuela, 2009), and news sharing (Lee & Ma, 2012).”
Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media (2020, background): “Adapting prior measures on news dissemination likelihood (e.g., Lee & Ma, 2012; Weeks & Holbert, 2013) which also involves recommending (Kümpel et al., 2015) and “commentary acts” (Dwyer & Martin, 2017, p. 1082), participants rated on a 7-point Likert-type scale (1 = very unlikely and 7 = very…”
Partisan Provocation: The Role of Partisan News Use and Emotional Responses in Political Information Sharing in Social Media (2016, background): “Research in this area has identified important demographic and personality characteristics that facilitate political information sharing (e.g., Glynn et al., 2012) as well as certain gratifications that such behaviors meet (Lee & Ma, 2012).”
Digital content marketing as a catalyst for e-WOM in food tourism (2020, background): “…et al., 2014; Pritschet et al., 2016). unique and distinct feature of social media and a strong impetus for people to participate in online activities (Lee and Ma, 2012), people express themselves to the outside world through social media platforms, thus influencing others’ impressions of them…”
Persuasive messages, popularity cohesion, and message diffusion in social media marketing (2015, background): “0.96 Share intention (Lee & Ma, 2012) 0.96 0.88 3.83 0.82 SI1: I intend to share recipe posts on iCook in the future.”
Perceived News Overload and Its Cognitive and Attitudinal Consequences for News Usage in South Korea (2017, background): “The Internet and SNSs have ignited research exploring increasing perceptions of information burden in a media environment because the amounts of news and available platforms for news consumption have substantially increased (Holton & Chyi, 2012; Lee & Ma, 2012; Pentina & Tarafdar, 2014; York, 2013).”
News Sharing in Social Media: A Review of Current Research on News Sharing Users, Content, and Networks (2015, background): “Other self-serving motives like entertainment or escapism were studied as well (e.g., Lee & Ma, 2012; Ma et al., 2011), but results suggest that news sharing is generally not perceived to fulfill entertainment needs or to help escaping from daily routines.”