A multi-theoretical approach towards understanding news sharing in social media

Ma, Long

doi:10.32657/10356/62913

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“…News learning refers to the extent to which news stories shared in social media can satisfy users' current information needs as well as potential future information needs. There are three items measuring users' information learning in the process of mobile news reading, which adapted from Ma (2015). One item was “Reading mobile news helps me to increase my knowledge.”…”

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What influences news learning and sharing on mobile platforms? An analysis of multi-level informational factors

Wang

Zareapoor

Chen

et al. 2022

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PurposeThe purpose of the study is threefold: first, to identify what factors influence mobile users' willingness of news learning and sharing, second, to find out whether users' learning in the news platforms will affect their sharing behavior and third, to access the impact of sharing intention on actual sharing behavior on the mobile platform.Design/methodology/approachThis study proposes an influence mechanism model for examining the relationship among the factors, news learning and news sharing. The proposed mechanism includes factors at three levels: personal, interpersonal and social level. To achieve this, researchers collected data from 474 mobile news users in China to test the hypotheses. The tools SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 23.0 were used to analysis the reliability, validity, model fits and structural equation modeling (SEM), respectively.FindingsThe findings indicate that news learning on the mobile platforms is affected by self-efficacy and self-enhancement. And news sharing intention is influenced by self-efficacy, interpersonal trust, interpersonal reciprocity, online community identity and social norms positively. News sharing intention has a significant effect on news sharing behavior, but news learning has an insignificant relationship with new sharing.Originality/valueThis study provides practical guidelines for mobile platform operators and news media managers by explicating the various factors of users' engagement on the news platforms. This paper also enriches the literature of news learning and news sharing on mobile by the integration of two theories: the social ecology theory and the interpersonal behavior theory.

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What influences news learning and sharing on mobile platforms? An analysis of multi-level informational factors

Wang

Zareapoor

Chen

et al. 2022

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“…There are four items that measured users' knowledge and information learning on social media. All of them were adapted from Ma (2015). One item was “I proactively gain useful knowledge by reading the information I get on social media.” Cronbach's α of this scale was 0.947.…”

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Exploring the factors influencing users' learning and sharing behavior on social media platforms

Wang

Xie

2022

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PurposeThe research goal is to understand what factors affect users' knowledge and information learning and sharing on social media platforms. This study focuses on the impact of platform characteristics on users' behavior. Specifically, the purpose of this study is to investigate (1) what factors affect users' learning and dissemination of knowledge and information on social media platforms, (2) whether knowledge and information learning behavior will have a positive effect on sharing behavior and (3) try to establish an impact model of users' learning and sharing behavior about knowledge and information.Design/methodology/approachThis study proposes an impact mechanism model to test these hypotheses. To achieve this, the authors collected data from 430 users who have used the social media platforms to acquire and share knowledge and information to test the hypothesis. The tools SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 23.0 were used to analyze the reliability, validity, model fits and structural equation modeling.FindingsThe results show that the learning of knowledge and information can influence the sharing behavior on social media platforms. Users' platform-based trust and platform-based satisfaction affect their knowledge and information learning and sharing on the platform. Factors affecting users' trust in social platforms include privacy protection effectiveness and network effects. And, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are related to users' satisfaction with social media platforms.Originality/valueThis study constructs an impact model on the learning and sharing of knowledge and information. The model takes the information system continuance model as the theoretical framework and integrates other factors, including the network effect, the effectiveness of privacy protection and trust. Most of the hypotheses of this research were confirmed. The conclusions provide practical guidance for the dissemination of knowledge information and platform management.

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Modelling the factors that determine online news-sharing behaviour of social media users: The role of perceived message and online environmental characteristics

Na,

Wang,

et al. 2023

Journal of Information Science

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This study modelled the online environment characteristics and message characteristics that predict news sharing among social media users. This study’s data were obtained from a cross-sectional national survey conducted in Nigeria. Qualtrics was used to recruit data from 1320 participants in Nigeria. The participants were recruited via a stratified quota sampling which reflected the country’s census statistics for gender and age. We found the message characteristics to predict news-sharing behaviour among social media users in Nigeria. By implication, the characteristics of a message encountered online influence the news-sharing behaviour of social media users. We also found that the online environment characteristics predict news-sharing behaviour, which implies that the external factor, that is, the relationship a user has with his network members, predicts sharing behaviour. Some theoretical and practical implications were provided to conclude the study.

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A multi-theoretical approach towards understanding news sharing in social media

Cited by 3 publications

References 173 publications

What influences news learning and sharing on mobile platforms? An analysis of multi-level informational factors

What influences news learning and sharing on mobile platforms? An analysis of multi-level informational factors

Exploring the factors influencing users' learning and sharing behavior on social media platforms

Modelling the factors that determine online news-sharing behaviour of social media users: The role of perceived message and online environmental characteristics

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