Social impacts in social media: An examination of perceived truthfulness and sharing of information

Li, Huaye; Sakamoto, Yasuaki

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.08.009

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“…Therefore, social impact theory provides a robust framework for understanding how individuals are affected in a social media environment because (1) conversations on social media are centered around actors that are more influential within a network, (2) there are lower physical barriers on social media, and (3) social media provide a large volume of opinions from various sources. If an individual considers a group of social media users to be influential due to their collective opinions, the group would be important to that individual (strength), the individual would feel close to the group who are interested in the same topic (immediacy), and the number of people in the group is often large (numbers; Li & Sakamoto, 2014).…”

Section: Social Impact and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Are You Connected Through Consumption? The Role of Hashtags in Political Consumption

Johnson

Hall-Phillips

Chung

et al. 2019

Social Media + Society

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The debate surrounding protesting National Football League (NFL) games began with player Colin Kaepernick’s decision not to stand for the national anthem in response to increased police violence toward people of color in the United States. Public use of social media has cast players’ behavior of kneeling or sitting during the anthem into an international spotlight and led to individuals’ participation in political consumerism, including boycotting the NFL. The goal of this research is to examine the role of a hashtag in political consumerism through the lens of social impact theory and its relation to individuals’ consumption practices. Using social network and content analysis, this study examined a 4-day sample of tweets and accompanying hashtags that included #BoycottNFL during 9 days of the 2017 NFL season. Findings of this study suggest that the line between lifestyle and contentious political consumerism is blurred. Boycotting the NFL is contentious political consumerism, but it consists of lifestyle political consumerism through the individualized behavior of creating a tweet, which inadvertently is a part of collective action. Furthermore, the analysis indicated that accompanying hashtags demonstrated three types of political consumerism sentiment (i.e., political-, civic-, and consumption-related) that change the tone of a tweet, which may alienate actors who are focused on the consumption practices of the collective action. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Section: Social Impact and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Are You Connected Through Consumption? The Role of Hashtags in Political Consumption

Johnson

Hall-Phillips

Chung

et al. 2019

Social Media + Society

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“…In other words, sharing has mostly been treated as an outcome that can be predicted by a range of factors, such as emotional content (Papacharissi and de Fatima Oliveira, 2012); the presence of specific news frames (Valenzuela et al 2017); the intensity of ongoing political events (Boczkowski and Mitchelstein, 2011); the characteristics of audience comments and ratings (Li and Sakamoto, 2014); and the role of elite users with large numbers of followers (Bakshy et al, 2011). Some work exists on the relationships between Facebook's affordances and personal feelings of community and involvement (Oeldorf-Hirsch and Sundar, 2015) and there is a growing body of work on the factors that lead users to post comments on news articles, as opposed to share news (see for example Weber, 2013).…”

Section: News Sharing On Social Media: Identifying Uncivic Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do tabloids poison the well of social media? Explaining democratically dysfunctional news sharing

Chadwick

Vaccari

O’Loughlin

2018

New Media & Society

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The use of social media for sharing political information and the status of news as an essential raw material for good citizenship are both generating increasing public concern. We add to the debates about misinformation, disinformation, and “fake news” using a new theoretical framework and a unique research design integrating survey data and analysis of observed news sharing behaviors on social media. Using a media-as-resources perspective, we theorize that there are elective affinities between tabloid news and misinformation and disinformation behaviors on social media. Integrating four data sets we constructed during the 2017 UK election campaign—individual-level data on news sharing (N = 1,525,748 tweets), website data (N = 17,989 web domains), news article data (N = 641 articles), and data from a custom survey of Twitter users (N = 1313 respondents)—we find that sharing tabloid news on social media is a significant predictor of democratically dysfunctional misinformation and disinformation behaviors. We explain the consequences of this finding for the civic culture of social media and the direction of future scholarship on fake news.

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“…The closest variable to perceived truthfulness is perceived credibility, which received reasonable attention in information sharing literature. For example, past studies suggest that when a credible source communicates a rumor, the believability and sharing of the rumor increase [18]. However, "credibility is related to truthfulness in that more credible information should be perceived as more truthful" [18, p.279].…”

Section: Perceived Truthfulness Of Contentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…People do not find trouble accepting a good music or rejecting a bad one; popularity of the pieces in between vary depending on whether people know the number of download the music had [27]. Prior studies strongly claim that others' opinion influence ones' in online environments [18]. In social media environment, people liked a same news/story more when it had many existing supporters than had only a few [26]; interestingly, people even switched their preferences when the assumed numbers are flipped.…”

Section: Collective Opinionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hence, a moderating effect of CO between perceived truthfulness and sharing intention of a message is plausible. Based on the prior work of Li and Sakamoto [18] who investigated the role of CO on perceived truthfulness and collective sharing likelihood of a statement in social media, our study investigates the moderating effect of CO on the antecedents to people's intention for sharing political content, which is:…”

Section: Collective Opinionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Predicting People’s Intention Towards Sharing Political Contents in Social Media: The Moderating Effect of Collective Opinion

Hossain¹,

Chan²,

Dwivedi³

2016

Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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The purpose of this study is to establish and examine a model explaining sharing of political content in social media. From individuals' perspective, this study identifies two personal (i.e., altruism and social recognition) and two content related attributes (i.e., perceived truthfulness and value) that can directly affect sharing intention of political contents in social media. Moreover, the proposed direct effects are arguably contingent upon 'collective opinion'. The empirical results support all the hypotheses except the moderating effect of collective opinion between perceived value and intention. The implications of the findings and future research directions are also discussed.

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Social impacts in social media: An examination of perceived truthfulness and sharing of information

Cited by 85 publications

References 34 publications

Are You Connected Through Consumption? The Role of Hashtags in Political Consumption

Are You Connected Through Consumption? The Role of Hashtags in Political Consumption

Do tabloids poison the well of social media? Explaining democratically dysfunctional news sharing

Predicting People’s Intention Towards Sharing Political Contents in Social Media: The Moderating Effect of Collective Opinion

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