‘Soft’ Versus ‘Hard’ News on Microblogging Networks

News Sharing in Social Media: A Review of Current Research on News Sharing Users, Content, and Networks

“…While some researchers focus on social media and news sharing strategies of news organizations or journalists (e.g., Lasorsa, Lewis, & Holton, 2012;Navarro-Maillo, 2013;Stassen, 2011;Verweij, 2012), most studies dedicate their attention to the average user and questions about his or her sharing-related features. Features deemed relevant in investigations include (perceived) opinion leadership (e.g., Hu et al, 2012;Ma, Lee, & Goh, 2013Wu, Hofman, Mason, & Watts, 2011), tie strength and homophily (e.g., Bakshy, Rosenn, Marlow, & Adamic, 2012;Choudhury, Sundaram, John, Seligmann, & Kelliher, 2010;Ma et al, 2013Ma et al, , 2014Susarla, Oh, & Tan, 2012), activity on the social media platform (e.g., Choudhury et al, 2010;Ferrara, Interdonato, & Tagarelli, 2014;Horan, 2013), number of followers or friends (e.g., Bakshy, Hofman, Mason, & Watts, 2011;Hong, Dan, & Davison, 2011;Wu et al, 2011), and news and content preferences (e.g., Hermida, Fletcher, Korell, & Logan, 2012;Himelboim, Hansen, & Bowser, 2013;Lehmann, Castillo, Lalmas, & Zuckerman, 2013;Romero et al, 2011;Rosengard, Tucker-McLaughlin, & Brown, 2014;Sun, Rosenn, Marlow, & Lento, 2009;Weeks & Holbert, 2013). The results of these studies suggest that people who share news in social media perceive themselves as opinion leaders and tend to have lots of friends or followers.…”

Seek and You Shall Find? How Need for Orientation Moderates Knowledge Gain from Twitter Use

“…In a recent study, Hahn, Iyengar, van Aelst, and Curran () classified current affairs information into “hard news” (i.e., information about major political events and the identity of political leaders) and “soft news” (i.e., information about events and people with minimal political relevance, such as sports and entertainment) and found that self‐reported exposure to newspapers and national television news had a significant impact only on the latter in the United States, whereas news exposure was positively associated with the knowledge of both news types in Sweden. If such cross‐national differences indeed stem from the more public‐centered (Sweden) versus entertainment‐oriented (United States) news coverage, as well as the audience's demand for each type of news (Hahn et al, ; Iyengar et al, ), considering that more soft news is being circulated on Twitter than hard news (Horan, ), Twitter use might contribute more to the acquisition of the former than the latter. In addition, as NFO centers on the desire for information about major social issues, it might not be as relevant to predicting and explaining individual differences in soft news knowledge as it is to hard news knowledge.…”

Eleições 2016 nas fanpages dos jornais regionais: o Facebook como espaço de distribuição e visibilidade das notícias sobre a campanha eleitoral

“…No entanto, na comunicação digital, os valores-notícia ganham novas interpretações porque há, de modo complementar, uma nova lógica: da viralização dos conteúdos (GARCÍA-PERDOMO et al, 2017). Horan (2013) Assim, a escolha em tratar mais ou menos sobre a disputa tem interferência de fatores editoriais, econômicos e do próprio processo de produção das redações (SHOEMAKER;VOS, 2009). Esse processo tem se tornado cada vez mais complexo, pois incorpora -a cada dia -novos fatores, principalmente relacionado às questões do público e econômicas.…”