Anatomy of news consumption on Facebook [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 Significance Social media heavily changed the way we get informed and shape our opinions. Users’ polarization seems to dominate news consumption on Facebook. Through a massive analysis on 920 news outlets and 376 million users, we explore the anatomy of news consumption on Facebook on a global scale.
Ana Lucía Schmidt +7 more
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Inside the ‘black box’ of COVID-19 vaccination beliefs: Revealing the relative importance of public confidence and news consumption habits [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 2022 Rationale President Biden's goal for 70% of U.S. adults to have received at least one vaccine by July 4, 2021 was not achieved. Objective The aim of this research was to assess the ‘black box’ of positive COVID-19 vaccination beliefs to determine the ...
Jennifer A. Lueck, T. Callaghan
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Social media literacy: fake news consumption and perception of COVID-19 in Nigeria
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022 The emergence of social media in the late 90s resulted in information dissemination and consumption transformation. Social networking sites have increasingly been popular and appealing to youths, who often spend much time navigating across the platforms,
Bashiru Usman +2 more
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Applied Cognitive PsychologyWe analyze how curiosity drives news consumption. We test predictions of the information‐gap theory of curiosity using over 100,000 WeChat news articles, applying NLP methods to construct measures of salience, importance, and surprisingness associated ...
Jingyi Qiu, Russell Golman
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What's APPening to news? A mixed-method audience-centred study on mobile news consumption [PDF]
Mobile Media and Communication, 2015 News is increasingly being consumed on a multitude of media devices, including mobile devices. In recent years, mobile news consumption has permeated individuals’ news consumption repertoires.
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Personality and Individual Differences, 2021 The existence of fake news on social media is likely to influence important issues such as elections, attitudes toward public policy, and health care decisions.
D. Calvillo +3 more
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How should we approach negative news in the media? A ‘mindful’ and ‘harmonious’ consumption of negative news by users might be an answer [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe prevalence of negative sentiment in news content appears to have increased over time. This trend has raised concerns about the potential challenges associated with consuming negative news, particularly when it is consumed frequently. In response, two
Reza Shabahang +4 more
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Disposition to vote and media consumption patterns among Chilean youth [PDF]
Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2012 This article discusses the relation between Chilean youth media consumption patterns and their disposition to vote. In this context, to what extent does news consumption and entertainment by Chilean youth influence their political participation patterns?
Andrés Scherman, Arturo Arriagada
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News consumption patterns during the coronavirus pandemic across time and devices: The Cyprus case [PDF]
World of Media, 2022 The coronavirus pandemic sparked a renewed interest in news consumption patterns. When major crises occur, people experience an increasing need for information and sense-making; given the extraordinary impact of this health crisis on people’s social and ...
Paschalia (Lia) Spyridou +1 more
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The evaluation of fake and true news: on the role of intelligence, personality, interpersonal trust, ideological attitudes, and news consumption. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Sindermann C +4 more
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