Facebook, the Third-Person Effect, and the Differential Impact Hypothesis

Schweisberger, Valarie N.; Billinson, Jennifer; Chock, T. Makana

doi:10.1111/jcc4.12061

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“…Consistent with Davison's initial hypothesis (1983), the patterns of results indicate that Internet users tend to report that the number of shares/likes of an article in social networks will have a greater impact on others than themselves. The results are similar to previous studies where WTPE was also found in the context of social media (Schweisberger et al, 2014;Tsay-Vogel, 2015). Also, the findings are consistent with prior work conducted by Stavrositu and Kim (2014) and Antonopoulos et al (2015) where social media metrics were found to influence WTPE.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

“…It should be noted that TPE appears on all typical media regardless the method employed, the observed content, the medium under study, the flow of questions, and the phrasing or the quality of the message (Perloff, 1999). Regarding digital media, Web-Third person effect (WTPE) (Antonopoulos et al, 2015) can be detected across blogs, online newspapers (Banning & Sweetser, 2007), online news in social media contexts (Schweisberger et al, 2014), social media metrics (number of shares and comments) in the process of opinion formulation about health information (Stavrositu & Kim, 2014), among Facebook users (Tsay-Vogel, 2015 and finally in structural aspects of the information on media websites (Antonopoulos et al, 2015) (see Table 1). A significant part of the research on TPE has focused on the perception of negative media content.…”

Section: Third-person Effect and The Webmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this case and because of the focus on Web media, the term Web Third-person effect (WTPE) has been adopted. Over the last decade, WTPE has been researched in social media contexts, social media metrics and also across online news (Banning & Sweetser, 2007;Schweisberger, Billinson, & Chock, 2014;Stavrositu & Kim, 2014;Tsay-Vogel, 2015). Nevertheless, further studies need to be conducted in this field where the viewer is able to affect media content.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Web Third-Person Effect Hypothesis: Do likes and Shares Affect Users’ Perceptions?

Antonopoulos¹,

Giomelakis²,

Veglis³

et al. 2016

JMC

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This paper studies the web third-person effect (WTPE) hypothesis in the context of news websites and social media.Specifically, the study examines the role of social media metrics (i.e., shares and likes of news articles) in shaping users' opinion about the websites. Users' news sharing intention in social media is also investigated. Based on a structured online questionnaire (N = 7,404), the results confirm that WTPE can be found in social media metrics without the presence of specific message content. It should be noted that the effect was found at three perceptual levels, self, friends, and other users. Regarding intention for news sharing, text was indicated as the most important reason among Internet users. Finally, the work demonstrates significant correlations between WTPE and article characteristics that influence people's attitudes to share news online.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

Section: Third-person Effect and The Webmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Web Third-Person Effect Hypothesis: Do likes and Shares Affect Users’ Perceptions?

Antonopoulos¹,

Giomelakis²,

Veglis³

et al. 2016

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“…On the other hand, evidence that social media are especially likely to engender first-person acknowledgments of news story effects (Schweisberger, Billinson, & Chock, 2014) has interesting implications. It and the general tenor of social media suggest that social media might diminish the tendency to displace negative effects outward onto third persons.…”

Section: Examining Hostile Media Effects In An Online Media Agementioning

confidence: 97%

A Three-Decade Retrospective on the Hostile Media Effect

Perloff

2015

Mass Communication and Society

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Some 30 years ago, Vallone, Ross, and Lepper (1985) conducted a pioneering study of the hostile media effect in which they demonstrated that partisans perceive media coverage as unfairly biased against their side. Over the ensuing decades, scores of experiments and surveys have extended their findings, demonstrating hostile media effects in a variety of domains. Taking the measure of the research more than 30 years later by systematically reviewing the many studies conducted in different locales, this article summarizes the knowledge base on the hostile media effect. The paper integrates findings, clarifies conceptual issues, and presents two research-based models of the effect. Future scholarly pathways are suggested, with a focus on how hostile media biases may change -or continue -in an era vastly different than the mass communication-dominated age in which the concept was pioneered.

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“…In line with the third-person effect theory, which has been used to explain social user behaviour in recent studies (e.g. Schweisberger et al, 2014), social networking users may think that privacy threats affect others more than themselves (Salwen and Dupagn, 2000;Brosius and Engel, 1996). This self-denial of the threat to privacy may explain the empirical finding for Hypothesis 1 of the current research (i.e.…”

Section: Implications For Practicementioning

confidence: 50%

The role of security notices and online consumer behaviour: An empirical study of social networking users

Benson

Saridakis

Tennakoon

et al. 2015

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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a b s t r a c tThis paper uses a survey of social networking users to empirically explore their perceptions of security notices -independently verified artefacts informing internet site users that security measures are taken by the site owner. We investigate such factors as purchase experience, purchase intention, risk propensity, usage of various social network categories and user victimisation. The results suggest a strong positive link between purchase intention and paying attention to security notices/features on social networks. We find that higher use of narrow-purpose social networking services has a negative association with paying attention to security notices. We also show that users with higher risk propensity pay less attention to security notices/features. Finally, we find no association between purchase experience, user victimisation and perception of security notices/features. Our results provide new, and possibly more refined, evidence of the factors that influence the attention paid to security notices/features by social media users. The results have important implications for theory development, policy and practice.

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Facebook, the Third-Person Effect, and the Differential Impact Hypothesis

Cited by 53 publications

References 17 publications

Web Third-Person Effect Hypothesis: Do likes and Shares Affect Users’ Perceptions?

Web Third-Person Effect Hypothesis: Do likes and Shares Affect Users’ Perceptions?

A Three-Decade Retrospective on the Hostile Media Effect

The role of security notices and online consumer behaviour: An empirical study of social networking users

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