Comparing user-content interactivity and audience diversity across news and satire: differences in online engagement between satire, regular news and partisan news

Boukes, Mark; Chu, Xiaotong; Noon, M. F. Abdulqadir; Liu, Rufei; Araujo, Theo; Kroon, Anne C.

doi:10.1080/19331681.2021.1927928

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“…The findings discussed here do not only contribute to the scientific literature on the effects of comments, but they are also societally relevant for at least two reasons. First, they advance the understanding of what potential impact political satire has on its audience when it is accessed through social media (also see Boukes et al, In press): Viewers’ experiences and knowledge gain of political satire are not only dependent on the political satire itself, but also partly shaped by the social context in which political satire videos are embedded. Second, the findings of this study may make individuals more aware of the potential impact that comments may have on them.…”

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“…People increasingly watch and share television shows via YouTube and other social media platforms (Gottfried and Shearer, 2017); political satire is a prominent example of this (Baym and Shah, 2011; Boukes et al, In press). On such online platforms, users are exposed not only to the selected media content, but also to the social context in which this is presented, consisting of user comments and statistics about the number of (dis)likes.…”

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Online social environments and their impact on video viewers: The effects of user comments on entertainment experiences and knowledge gain during political satire consumption

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Boukes

2021

New Media & Society

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Political satire is often consumed on online platforms (e.g. YouTube) and the effects of its consumption may be highly conditional on the user comments that are surrounding it. By manipulating the valence of comments (positive vs negative) and the focus of these comments (hedonic entertainment value vs eudaimonic entertainment value vs informative value), this pre-registered experiment investigates how user comments affect satire viewers’ hedonic entertainment experiences, their eudaimonic entertainment experiences, and their knowledge gain. Analyses showed that the valence of comments congruently affected viewers’ hedonic entertainment experiences, eudaimonic entertainment experiences, and subjective knowledge gain, but not their objective knowledge gain. In addition, the focus of user comments affected eudaimonic entertainment experiences and knowledge gain regardless of comments’ valence. This study’s findings advance our understanding of how viewers are affected when they consume media content that is surrounded by the comments of other viewers.

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Online social environments and their impact on video viewers: The effects of user comments on entertainment experiences and knowledge gain during political satire consumption

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Boukes

2021

New Media & Society

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“…Tewksbury et al (2001) found that the frequency of internet use was positively correlated with incidental exposure to news on the internet, while incidental news exposure was positively correlated with the acquisition of current affairs knowledge. This was verified by Boukes et al (2022), whose survey confirmed that frequent use of Twitter can positively influence the acquisition of knowledge of current affairs. Regarding the influence of media platforms on knowledge dissemination, Jerit et al (2006) believed that the diversity of information disseminated in platforms was conducive to the learning of public knowledge and the improvement of citizens' knowledge literacy.…”

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

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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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“…Although it is unknown how many foreign produced satire is being consumed, such clips are regularly promoted by U.S. celebrities, 6 E.g., https://twitter.com/samuelljackson/status/966060490219597824 . interacted with on social media ( Boukes et al. 2022 ) and picked up by U.S. mass media (e.g., Donadio and Stack 2017 ; Lopez 2018 ).…”

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Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism

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LaMarre

2023

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The differential satire effects across domestic and foreign audiences are largely unknown; yet, this is of growing relevance as political satire increasingly reaches international audiences. A two-country experiment was conducted in which satirical stimuli from the Netherlands with either a one-sided (only targeting the United States) or two-sided humorous message (targeting both the U.S. and the Netherlands) was presented to a domestic (in-group) or foreign (out-group) audience. Specifically, this study examines political satire’s differential emotional and attitudinal impact on audiences located in the country-of-production (Netherlands) or abroad (U.S.). Results show that satire sidedness uniformly influenced hedonic enjoyment: compared to two-sided satire, one-sided satire elicited negative emotions and decreased positive emotions for both the in-group (Dutch) and the out-group (U.S.) audience. Yet, satire differentially affected patriotic attitudes. This effect was moderated by country and age: younger U.S. citizens became less patriotic after exposure to the one-sided satire that targeted their country and decreased their positive emotions; older U.S. citizens, in contrast, became more patriotic after exposure to this one-sided satire that particularly increased their negative emotions. The Dutch audience’s level of patriotism remained stable irrespective of satire sidedness. Altogether, this study demonstrates how humor type, country-of-reception, and age matter for satire effects.

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Comparing user-content interactivity and audience diversity across news and satire: differences in online engagement between satire, regular news and partisan news

Cited by 16 publications

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Online social environments and their impact on video viewers: The effects of user comments on entertainment experiences and knowledge gain during political satire consumption

Online social environments and their impact on video viewers: The effects of user comments on entertainment experiences and knowledge gain during political satire consumption

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

Satire without borders: the age-moderated effect of one-sided versus two-sided satire on hedonic experiences and patriotism

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