Posting, commenting, and tagging: Effects of sharing news stories on Facebook

The Presence of Three Portuguese Tv News Channels (Rtp3, Sic Notícias, and Tvi24) on Facebook

“…Facebook becomes an excellent example of user participation in the news content, abandoning a position of passive users of news contents, and assuming a role of content sharing. For the users, this sharing and discussion of content create a self-sense of information control, and is also an important source of news for your network (Oeldorf-Hirsch & Sundar, 2015). For news organizations, the content sharing made by users, allows these content to reach a larger number of people.…”

“…Moreover, in terms of "Source of news content", the RTP3 just published one news content that redirect the user to an external source (0.5%), while SIC Notícias published 43 external sources (10.1%), and TVI24 only 1.6% were external sources. As refer Ju et al (2014) and Oeldorf-Hirsch and Sundar (2015), the news organizations use Facebook to redirect the audience to their official webpages. These results reinforce these studies.…”

“…For news organizations, the content sharing made by users, allows these content to reach a larger number of people. Because that content often has a link that redirects the user for the full article (Ju et al, 2014;Oeldorf-Hirsch & Sundar, 2015), ultimately, sharing this content, allows news organisations to increase the number of visits of their official websites.…”

“…For this second hypothesis the authors intend to analyse whether the three main news channels of Portuguese TV, use their Facebook pages as a tool to redirect their audience to their official websites (Ju et al, 2014;Oeldorf-Hirsch & Sundar, 2015), or also used for share content from other sources. It is also intend to understand if the news posted on Facebook pages use text only or other format (images or video), and if there are redundancy between the information placed in the publication and the link that redirect the users to their official websites.…”

“…The social network Facebook allows new ways of sharing content, and enables users to comment and interact with the content published by news organizations (Oeldorf-Hirsch & Sundar, 2015). In recent years, the use of Facebook pages by the TV news channels has become a common practice (Castillo et al, 2014).…”