News sharing as reciprocal exchanges in social cohesion maintenance

Goh, Debbie; Ling, Richard; Huang, Liuyu; Liew, Doris

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2017.1406973

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“…Previous studies on WhatsApp and journalism mostly focus on WhatsApp as a tool to communicate. Several studies discuss WhatsApp from an audience perspective, analyzing how users use smartphone messenger applications for news (Newman et al 2018;Swart, Peters, and Broersma 2017) and share and discuss news within a group of friends or colleagues Broersma 2018a, 2018b;Villi and Noguera-Vivo 2017;Goh et al 2017). The Reuters Digital News Report describes how the dynamic that users rely less on Facebook and more on WhatsApp for news is driven by brand images: WhatsApp is associated with "best friend, fun, brings people together" (Newman et al 2018, 13).…”

Section: Journalism and Whatsapp: Distribution And Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With growing userbases, WhatsApp news channels become relevant for journalism studies. Purposes of WhatsApp that have gained scholarly attention are the communication between journalists and sources (Belair-Gagnon, Agur, and Frisch 2016;Dodds 2019;McIntyre and Sobel 2019), and the communication within groups, e.g., journalists discussing their work (Baroni and Mayr 2018) or members of the audience talking about news Broersma 2018a, 2018b;Villi and Noguera-Vivo 2017;Goh et al 2017). Our aim is to study how journalists use WhatsApp for news as a journalistic channel, i.e., as a tool for the communication between journalists and their audience.…”

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What’s New about Whatsapp for News? A Mixed-Method Study on News Outlets’ Strategies for Using WhatsApp

Boczek

Koppers

2019

Digital Journalism

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Section: Journalism and Whatsapp: Distribution And Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What’s New about Whatsapp for News? A Mixed-Method Study on News Outlets’ Strategies for Using WhatsApp

Boczek

Koppers

2019

Digital Journalism

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“…While, for example, boyd (2008) and Baym (2010) have paid attention to the way people embed social media in everyday life to manage relationships with others in their networks, such studies usually do not focus on the role that news and journalism specifically play (see for an exception Goh et al 2017). Work that does centre around news, on the other hand, tends to direct its analysis to the informative value of news (e.g.…”

Section: The Social Contexts Of News Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Earlier, Goh et al (2017) found that the way individuals share news on messaging apps is a purposeful decision, underpinned by deliberate and strategic choices. While some users in their study for instance exclusively shared high impact news that required action, others focused on news that was valuable only symbolically, with the goal of maintaining social relations.…”

Section: Digital Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sharing and Discussing News in Private Social Media Groups

2018

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Social media platforms are an increasingly dominant medium through which people encounter news in everyday life. Yet while we know more-and-more about frequency of use and sharing, content preferences and network configurations around news use on social media, the social experiences associated with such practices remain relatively unexplored. This paper addresses this gap to consider if and how news facilitates conversations in everyday contexts where social media play a communicative role. It investigates how people engage with current affairs collectively in different social formations and their associated following, sharing and discussion practices. Specifically, it studies the role of news in six focus groups consisting of people who know each other offline and simultaneously communicate regularly through private Facebook or WhatsApp groups, and who interact primarily in relation to their membership in a particular (1) location-based (2) work-related or (3) leisure-oriented community. It finds that communication within social media communities whose members consider their ties as weak generally tended to be more news-centred. Even more significant was perceived control over privacy and presence of clear norms and community boundaries, which alongside the communicative aims of the group proved important considerations when it came to deciding whether to share news within the community.

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“…Messaging apps allow more intimate and private interactions given their simplicity, when compared to the 'open and asynchronous' nature of the Facebook feed (Goh et al, 2019). Swart et al (2018) document that users tend to use Facebook less often and in a more formal and passive setting, when compared to WhatsApp.…”

Section: Mobile Messaging Applications and News Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who shares news on mobile messaging applications, why and in what ways? A cross-national analysis

Kalogeropoulos

2020

Mobile Media & Communication

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Recently, in many countries, the use of mobile messaging applications for news has risen while the use of Facebook for news has declined. The purpose of this study is to identify who shares news on messaging applications, why and in what ways. Findings from a survey and focus groups in the US, the UK, Germany, and Brazil show that (a) the main motivation for news users to share news in these spaces is context collapse; their aversion to news sharing on an open network like Facebook, (b) the anytime/anywhere mobile affordance facilitates their need for private news sharing, (c) news stories chosen for sharing usually revolve around niche interests or breaking news events and not politics and current affairs, (d) news sharers are likely to be young, and to trust in news found on social media in the Western countries of our sample, while they tend to be older and partisan in Brazil where 38% of the population shares news on mobile messaging apps during an average week.

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News sharing as reciprocal exchanges in social cohesion maintenance

Cited by 61 publications

References 29 publications

What’s New about Whatsapp for News? A Mixed-Method Study on News Outlets’ Strategies for Using WhatsApp

What’s New about Whatsapp for News? A Mixed-Method Study on News Outlets’ Strategies for Using WhatsApp

Sharing and Discussing News in Private Social Media Groups

Who shares news on mobile messaging applications, why and in what ways? A cross-national analysis

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