Motivation and perception of Hong Kong university students about social media news

Kong, Qiuyi; Ku, Kelly Y. L.; Deng, Liping; Yan-Au, Apple-Chung

doi:10.3916/c67-2021-03

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“…Third, in terms of motivation of use, the study found that the main purpose of college students is to obtain information, which is conducive to improving their identity, while the other two motivations have no such effect. This is consistent with existing research: the motivation of most respondents is to seek information and use social media messages, which is a strong and persistent motivation [16]. College students use social media not only to share information, but also to gain professional knowledge and experience.…”

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Social Media and Its Impact on College Students Identity

Song

2023

CHR

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Social media has brought about the diffusion and communication of various ideological trend by strengthening the interaction between people. The diversity and complexity of interaction undoubtedly aggravate the identity crisis. For contemporary college students in China, the recognition of the identity of college student will have an important impact on their future development into the society. This research explores the impact of social media use (frequency of use, information acquisition mode, motivation for use, information acquisition channel) on the identity (its cognitive, evaluation, and emotional dimensions) of Chinese college students by using a questionnaire survey. The findings demonstrate Chinese college students have a high degree of identification with college students, and the use of social media plays a significant part in shaping their identity. In addition, access to information is the primary motivation for using social media. Positive information acquisition mode affects their identity positively, while how often college students used social media had no such effect, and the motivation of obtaining information and the domestic official media can promote college students identity. Therefore, the domestic official media should make full use of its high reliability and high authority, meet the demand of college students in terms of communication content as well as improve the quality of content.

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Social Media and Its Impact on College Students Identity

Song

2023

CHR

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“…As most of our respondents were relatively young (aged up to 34 years) and probably used social media actively, it is plausible that they were skilled Information and Communication Technology (ICT) users, understanding how news for social media is produced and disseminated [43]. This finding is congruent with previous studies, where it was found that high-news-literacy students were shown to be more inclined to seek out news for socializing than their low-news-literacy counterparts [113].…”

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Social Media Fact-Checking: The Effects of News Literacy and News Trust on the Intent to Verify Health-Related Information

Kožuh,

Čakš

2023

Healthcare

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The recent health crisis and the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence have caused misinformation on social media to flourish by becoming more sophisticated and challenging to detect. This calls upon fact-checking and questions users’ competencies and attitudes when assessing social media news. Our study provides a model of how fact-checking intent is explained by news literacy and news trust to examine how users behave in the misinformation-prone social media environment. Structural equation modeling was used to examine survey data gathered from social media users. The findings revealed that users’ intent to fact-check information in social media news is explained by (1) news literacy, such as the awareness of various techniques used by creators to depict situations about COVID-19; (2) news trust, in terms of the conviction that the news contains all the essential facts; and (3) intent, such as an aim to check information in multiple pieces of news. The presented findings may aid policymakers and practitioners in developing efficient communication strategies for addressing users less prone to fact-checking. Our contribution offers a new understanding of news literacy as a sufficient tool for combating misinformation, which actively equips users with knowledge and an attitude for social media news fact-checking.

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“…The second to sixth hypothesis testing has a relationship with the concept of e-service convenience on user satisfaction. Designed in the conceptual service convenience was proposed if consumers' perceptions of effort and time related to the use and purchase of a service (Kong et al, 2021). The dimensions of effort and time as an advantage in consumer convenience stimulate this.…”

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The Study of Perceived Risk and E-Service Convenience Towards Satisfaction and Trust of Online Academic Users in Indonesia

2021

International Journal of Media and Information Literacy

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The modernization in information technology (IT) has influenced the changes in the education industry. IT Utilization has provided users with many benefits. There are issues of security and privacy arising. This exploration examines the perceived risk and the e-service convenience of the satisfaction and trust of academic-online users at the University of Indonesia. Data collected by distributing the questionnaires to 220 respondents at two state universities and one private university in Indonesia. The sampling method applied from the convenience and purposive sampling technique, which is distributed to users, namely students, lecturers, and administrative staff. The data analyzed using path analysis. A results show that decision convenience, transaction convenience, and post-benefit convenience have a significant effect on academic-online user satisfaction. There is no influence of other factors such as perceived risk, access convenience, and benefit convenience on user satisfaction academic-online at college. This research also proves that satisfaction has a positive influence on user trust.

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Motivation and perception of Hong Kong university students about social media news

Cited by 8 publications

References 42 publications

Social Media and Its Impact on College Students Identity

Social Media and Its Impact on College Students Identity

Social Media Fact-Checking: The Effects of News Literacy and News Trust on the Intent to Verify Health-Related Information

The Study of Perceived Risk and E-Service Convenience Towards Satisfaction and Trust of Online Academic Users in Indonesia

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