Major memory for microblogs

Mickes, Laura; Darby, Ryan S.; Hwe, Vivian; Bajic, Daniel; Warker, Jill A.; Harris, Christine R.; Christenfeld, Nicholas

doi:10.3758/s13421-012-0281-6

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“…The popularity of social media makes it increasingly important to understand how engaging with this type of media shapes cognition. Previous research suggests that memory for social media content is high among the general population: Memory for Facebook microblogs is significantly higher than memory for sentences from books, news headlines, and even human faces (Mickes et al, 2013). The popularity of health-and dieting-related content on Instagram in particular emphasizes the importance of understanding how the act of viewing and interacting with these images impacts the viewer.…”

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#foodie: Implications of interacting with social media for memory

Zimmerman

Brown‐Schmidt

2020

Cogn. Research

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Background: Social media is an increasingly popular outlet for leisure and social interaction. On many social media platforms, the user experience involves commenting on or responding to user-generated content, such as images of cats, food, and people. In two experiments, we examined how the act of commenting on social media images impacts subsequent memory of those images, using Instagram posts as a test case. This project was inspired by recent findings of laboratory studies of conversation which found that describing a picture for a conversational partner boosts recognition memory for those images. Here we aimed to understand how this finding translates to the more ecologically valid realm of social media interactions. A second motivation for the study was the popularity of food-and dieting-related content on Instagram and prior findings that use of Instagram in particular is associated with disordered eating behaviors. Results: Across two experiments, we observed that commenting on Instagram posts consistently boosted subsequent recognition and that correct recognition increased with comment length. Stable individual differences in recognition memory were observed, and "unhealthy" food images such as chocolates were particularly well remembered; however, these memory findings did not relate to self-reported eating behavior. Conclusions: Taken together, our findings show that the way in which we engage with social media content shapes subsequent memory of it, raising new questions about how our online lives persist in memory over time, potentially shaping future behavior.behavior. Taken together, our findings show that the way in which we engage with social media images shapes subsequent memory for them, raising new questions about how our online lives persist in memory, potentially shaping future behavior.

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#foodie: Implications of interacting with social media for memory

Zimmerman

Brown‐Schmidt

2020

Cogn. Research

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“…Nevertheless, Mickes et al (2013) found that younger adults had a robust memory for social media content. In their study, college-aged participants were presented with faces, book sentences, or Facebook posts.…”

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“…However, Mickes et al (2013) did not examine the impact of knowing the source of the items. In their study, all items were presented without any source identifiers (i.e., as typed sentences).…”

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Reading the news on Twitter: Source and item memory for social media in younger and older adults

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Background: Social media content is well-remembered, possibly because of its personal relevance and gossipy nature. It is unclear whether the mnemonic advantage of social media extends to a population less familiar with these platforms and whether knowing the content is from social media sources influences memory. This study examined how the presentation of news-like content in social media affected both item and source memory across two age groups. Younger adults (n = 42) and older adults (n = 32) studied tweets and news headlines that appeared in the format of Twitter posts or CNN headlines-these items were designed to be either congruent (e.g., tweets formatted as Twitter posts) or incongruent (e.g., tweets formatted as CNN headlines). Results: For item memory, both age groups correctly recognized tweets more than headlines. Source identification was more accurate when format and content were congruent than incongruent. Signal detection analyses indicated that the source advantage for congruent items was largely driven by a bias to select the format that matched the content's original source and that this tendency was stronger in older adults. Conclusions: These results replicate previous literature on the mnemonic advantage of social media content. Although both younger and older adults remembered the content of social media better than the content of news sources, older adults were more sensitive than younger adults to congruency effects in source memory. These findings suggest that older adults rely more on their prior knowledge of conventional language and style in traditional and social media.

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“…A second major challenge in opinion formation is understanding how social risk diffusion responds to the reintroduction of balanced information, which is often the hallmark of expert opinion (Tetlock, 2010). Various psychological biases influence memory and social message transmission, such as enhanced retrieval for personal information and anecdotes, and selection for more easily communicated information (Kirby, 2001;Kirby, Cornish, & Smith, 2008;Mickes et al, 2013), all of which may limit the ability of balanced accounts to correct social risk amplification. Higher anxiety promotes selective processing and is therefore associated with less risk attenuation in response to balanced information (Mathews, 1990;Mathews & Mackintosh, 1998).…”

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Bad News Has Wings: Dread Risk Mediates Social Amplification in Risk Communication

Jagiello

Hills

2018

Risk Analysis

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Social diffusion of information amplifies risk through processes of birth, death, and distortion of message content. Dread risk-involving uncontrollable, fatal, involuntary, and catastrophic outcomes (e.g., terrorist attacks and nuclear accidents)-may be particularly susceptible to amplification because of the psychological biases inherent in dread risk avoidance. To test this, initially balanced information about high or low dread topics was given to a set of individuals who then communicated this information through diffusion chains, each person passing a message to the next. A subset of these chains were also reexposed to the original information. We measured prior knowledge, perceived risk before and after transmission, and, at each link, number of positive and negative statements. Results showed that the more a message was transmitted the more negative statements it contained. This was highest for the high dread topic. Increased perceived risk and production of negative messages was closely related to the amount of negative information that was received, with domain knowledge mitigating this effect. Reexposure to the initial information was ineffectual in reducing bias, demonstrating the enhanced danger of socially transmitted information.

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Major memory for microblogs

Cited by 29 publications

References 21 publications

#foodie: Implications of interacting with social media for memory

#foodie: Implications of interacting with social media for memory

Reading the news on Twitter: Source and item memory for social media in younger and older adults

Bad News Has Wings: Dread Risk Mediates Social Amplification in Risk Communication

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