Determinants of News Sharing Behavior on Social Media

Thompson, Nik; Wang, Xuequn; Daya, Pratiq

doi:10.1080/08874417.2019.1566803

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“…The initial development of the U&G theory addressed the use of traditional media, however, in recent years, its application has been extended to internet studies especially social media studies ( Thompson et al, 2019 ). Therefore, the U&G theory has been adopted by social media researchers to realise the gratifications an individual gain from the usage of social media platforms.…”

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“…Also, Park and Blenkinsopp (2009) established some gratifications associated with social media usage to include entertainment, status-seeking, information seeking and socialisation. These gratifications have also been extended to understand news and knowledge sharing behaviour ( Thompson et al, 2019 , Lee and Ma, 2012 , Chiu et al, 2006 ). Thompson et al (2019) study found that status-seeking and information-seeking gratification were associated with news sharing behaviour.…”

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“…These gratifications have also been extended to understand news and knowledge sharing behaviour ( Thompson et al, 2019 , Lee and Ma, 2012 , Chiu et al, 2006 ). Thompson et al (2019) study found that status-seeking and information-seeking gratification were associated with news sharing behaviour. Similarly, it has been proven that people with higher motivation for status-seeking, socialisation and information-seeking disseminate news more often on social media ( Lee & Ma, 2012 ).…”

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“…We argue that the gratifications obtained from prior news sharing studies could be extended to examine fake news sharing because of the intrinsic participatory nature of social media ( Ma et al, 2014 ). Moreover, the limited literature on fake news sharing prompted this research to explore and extend to test fake news sharing using established news sharing determinants in prior studies ( Thompson et al, 2019 , Ma et al, 2014 ).…”

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“…increasing social, economic and political importance" [39]. A number of studies have shown that individuals experience a sense of self-gratification by sharing news on social media [40][41][42]. In addition to suppliers of news, social media is the key means by which individuals consume news information, whether or not this is intentional or incidental [43][44][45][46].…”

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Public debate in the media matters: evidence from the European refugee crisis

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In this paper, we take a novel approach to study the empirical relationship between public debate in the media and asylum acceptance rates in Europe from 2002-2016. In theory, an asylum seeker should experience the same likelihood of being granted refugee status from each of the 20 European countries we study. Yet, in practice, acceptance rates vary widely for nearly every asylum country of origin. We address this inconsistency with a data-driven approach by analyzing refugee-related news articles and data on asylum decisions across 20 Europe countries for more than 100 asylum seekers' countries of origin. We find that: (i) public debate sentiment in the media is strongly associated with European countries' diverging asylum practices, much more so than social, cultural or economic factors, and (ii) by combining different measures of public debate we can make out-of-sample predictions within 3% of true acceptance rates (on average). We conclude by discussing the practical implications of our findings for European asylum practices.

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Attitudes of Covid‐19 patients toward sharing their health data: A survey‐based study to understand security and privacy concerns

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Iranmanesh

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Background and Aims: Many people around the world, especially at the time of the Covid-19 outbreak, are concerned about their e-health data. The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of patients with Covid-19 toward sharing their health data for research and their concerns about security and privacy. Methods: This survey is a cross-sectional study conducted through an electronic researcher-made questionnaire from February to May 2021. Convenience sampling was applied to select the participants and all 475 patients were referred to two to Afzalipour and Shahid Bahonar hospitals were invited to the study. According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 204 patients were included in the study and completed the questionnaire. Descriptive statistics (frequency, mean, and standard deviation) were used to analyze the questionnaire data. SPSS 23.0 was used for data analysis.Results: Participants tended to share information about "comments provided by individuals on websites" (68.6%), "fitness tracker data" (64.19%), and "online shopping history" (63.21%) before death. Participants also tended to share information about "electronic medical records data" (36.75%), "genetic data" (24.99%), and "Instagram data" (24.99%) after death. "Fraud or misuse of personal information" (4.48 [±1.27]) was the most common concern of participants regarding the virtual world. "Unauthorized access to the account" (4.38 [±0.73]), "violation of the privacy of personal information" (4.26 [±0.85]), and "violation of the patient privacy and personal information confidentially" (4.26 [±0.85]) were the most of the unauthorized security incidents that occurred online for participants. Conclusion:Patients with Covid-19 were concerned about releasing information they shared on websites and social networks. Therefore, people should be made aware of the reliability of websites and social media so that their security and privacy are not affected.

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Determinants of News Sharing Behavior on Social Media

Cited by 106 publications

References 30 publications

Fake news and COVID-19: modelling the predictors of fake news sharing among social media users

Fake news and COVID-19: modelling the predictors of fake news sharing among social media users

Public debate in the media matters: evidence from the European refugee crisis

Attitudes of Covid‐19 patients toward sharing their health data: A survey‐based study to understand security and privacy concerns

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