Information-Sharing Behavior on WeChat Moments: The Role of Anonymity, Familiarity, and Intrinsic Motivation

Chen, Xi; Sun, Mingxue; Wu, Dong; Song, Xiao-Yu

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02540

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“…Some identity information can be identified by at least their real name or their picture, while other things like blurred picture and nickname may only provide limited information about the user. At some point, the world of SNSs reveals users' real social identities and leads to a healthy exchange of content, whereas perceived anonymity of self-decreases the ability of users to share information [39]. The researcher has also found that a higher degree of perceived anonymity on SNSs means less need to reveal self [40].…”

Section: ) Perceived Anonymity Of Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Privacy Protection Behavior in Social Networking Sites

Suhaimi¹,

Fadzilah²,

Syahirah³

et al. 2020

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Section: ) Perceived Anonymity Of Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Privacy Protection Behavior in Social Networking Sites

Suhaimi¹,

Fadzilah²,

Syahirah³

et al. 2020

IJACSA

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“…The results of participation affect public decision-making or governance behaviors. Researchers have studied the impact of cyber anonymity on self-disclosure and information sharing (Yoon and Rolland, 2012;Chen et al, 2016Chen et al, , 2019b.…”

Section: Cyber Anonymity and Online Public Opinionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifiability, Risk, and Information Credibility in Discussions on Moral/Ethical Violation Topics on Chinese Social Networking Sites

Chen

Huang

2020

Front. Psychol.

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One heated argument in recent years concerns whether requiring real name supervision on social media will inhibit users' participation in discoursing online speech. The current study explores the impact of identification, perceived anonymity, perceived risk, and information credibility on participating in discussions on moral/ethical violation events on social network sites (SNS) in China. In this study, we constructed a model based on the literature and tested it on a sample of 218 frequent SNS users. The results demonstrate the influence of identification and perception of anonymity: although the relationship between the two factors is negative, both are conducive to participation in discussion on moral/ethical violation topics, and information credibility also has a positive impact. The results confirmed the significance of risk perception on comments posted about moral/ethical violation. Our results have reference value for identity management and internet governance. Policies regarding users' real names on the internet need to take into account the reliability of the identity authentication mechanism, as well as netizens' perceptions of privacy about their identity and the necessity of guaranteeing content and information reliability online. We also offer some suggestions for future research, with a special emphasis on applicability to different cultures, contexts, and social networking sites.

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“…Social recognition such as respect and reputation are intrinsic rewards, whereas economic reward is an extrinsic reward. Researchers propose that intrinsic [21,22] and extrinsic rewards [23] are two of the main influencing factors in knowledge sharing. On these bases, we propose hypotheses 2 and 3:…”

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Users’ Willingness to Share Health Information in a Social Question-and-Answer Community: Cross-sectional Survey in China (Preprint)

Li¹,

Lin²,

Tang³

et al. 2020

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BACKGROUND Social Q&A communities are playing an increasingly important role in the dissemination of health information. The identification of influencing factors of user willingness to share health information (WSHI) is very important to improve public health literacy. OBJECTIVE in order to provide a reference for the construction of high-quality health information sharing community, this paper studied the influencing factors of social question-and-answer community users sharing health information. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted through snowball sampling among 921 users of Zhihu in China. Structural equation analysis was used to verify the interaction and influence strength between variables in the model. Hierarchical regression was also used to test the mediating effect in the model. RESULTS Altruism (AL, β=0.264, P＜0.001), Intrinsic Reward (IR, β=0.260, P＜0.05), Self-Efficacy (SE, β=0.468, P＜0.001) and Community Influence (CI, β=0.277, P＜0.01) had a positive effect while Extrinsic Reward (ER, β=0.351, P＜0.001) had a negative effect on WSHI. SE also had a mediating effect (βmediation=0.147, 29.15%, 0.147/0.505) between CI and WSHI. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest that WSHI is simultaneously influenced by many factors such as AL, SE, CI and IR. Improving the social atmosphere of the platform is an effective method to encourage users to share health information.

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Information-Sharing Behavior on WeChat Moments: The Role of Anonymity, Familiarity, and Intrinsic Motivation

Cited by 42 publications

References 131 publications

Determinants of Privacy Protection Behavior in Social Networking Sites

Determinants of Privacy Protection Behavior in Social Networking Sites

Identifiability, Risk, and Information Credibility in Discussions on Moral/Ethical Violation Topics on Chinese Social Networking Sites

Users’ Willingness to Share Health Information in a Social Question-and-Answer Community: Cross-sectional Survey in China (Preprint)

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