This study extends the nudge principle with media effects and credibility evaluation perspectives to examine whether effectiveness of fact-check alerts deter news sharing on social is moderated by source this moderation conditional upon users’ skepticism mainstream media. Results from a 2 (nudge: alert vs. no alert) × (news source: legacy unfamiliar non-mainstream) ( N = 929) experiment controlling for individual issue involvement, online experience revealed significant main interaction both...

The field of critical digital literacy studies has burgeoned in recent years as a result the increased cultural consumption media well turn to production forms. This article extends extant by focusing on its subfield citizenship. Proposing that citizenship is not another dimension or axis citizenship, but practice through which civic activities various dimensions are conducted, this critically considers how concept can furnish further insight into quality online participation results claims...

Taking the logic of online connective action from an information-processing viewpoint, experiment ( N = 208) was done to examine whether individuals’ cognitive elaboration on messages received different sources (personal: friends, family, vs. impersonal: organization) mediates their willingness engage in connective-type collective activities social media (e.g., commenting, “Liking”); and this indirect influence is biased by perceived source credibility. Results revealed significant personal...

This study extends the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS) to online health information seeking in context India. considers Internet (i.e., media) use an antecedent factor and personal relevance salience is separated into two dimensions – susceptibility severity. Structural equation modeling analysis (N = 990) tested associations between health-related antecedents, information-carrier factors, their direct effects on seeking. The results among seekers India showed significant...

This study expands the situational crisis communication theory (SCCT) with rumor to examine influence of online rumors on attribution organizational responsibility and attitude toward organization during a period uncertainty. Controlling for issue involvement, findings from three-group control experiment (N = 366) revealed that people tend believe fact-based more than subjective claims, leading greater blame and, consequently, negative attitudes organization. Findings extend theoretical...

Through the Spiral of Silence framework, this study examines online opinion climate effect on individual willingness to post messages in forums, using a 2 × experiment manipulating website source (mainstream news/ideologically homogeneous activist group) and congruency (minority/majority opinion). Individuals’ was affected only by their with those expressed forums. Analysis revealed instances individuals “speaking up” as compared out.” Other deterrents were also uncovered.

Research has shown that micro-mobilization efforts invoke social media rely heavily on the influence of personal networks to motivate collective action participation. This study examines whether this trend applies (a) different levels personalness, (b) causes and organizations which people are either unaware or not affiliated with, (c) how affect people's willingness participate in online versus offline forms action, when dispositional factors (activism- issue involvement, perceived self-,...

This project investigated how issue involvement and positive affect are related to attitude behavioral intention in the context of episodically thematically framed corporate social responsibility (CSR) messages. We examined mediation effects message elaboration on as well moderation dispositional skepticism relationships between affect, intention. Results from two message-embedded surveys show that for types messages used, was positively correlated with and, consequently, However, messages,...

Framed within the O-S-R-O-R (Orientations-Stimulus-Reasoning-Orientations-Response) communication mediation framework, this study examines bi-directional effects of personal message expression on individuals' cognitive elaboration, learning, and attitudes when exposed to social campaign messages in blogs (anti-drunk driving). Findings from an online-based experiment, (yes no), perceived homophily audiences no) revealed that expressing significantly affects amount effort expended by...

This study investigates comparative optimism—whereby people perceive themselves as relatively invulnerable to risks compared others—in the evaluation of online information credibility by children and their parents. Results a representative national survey Internet users revealed significant antecedents children's parents' optimism, including demographic characteristics, cognitive thinking style, perceived self-efficacy. Parental optimism was also found relate mediation strategies used...

This study investigates a postulated 30% supportive-comment threshold as “tipping point” for minority expression on social networking sites (SNSs) in the context of online incivility. By doing so, perceived hostility is introduced an interactional factor explaining minority’s (un)likelihood. Results from 2 (comment civility: civil vs uncivil) × 3 (supportive-comment proportion: 15% 45%) ( N = 807) revealed that uncivil comments lowered at supportive threshold, which then leads to greater...

This study examines the SNS activities of Singaporean women to assess how they perceive risk Zika virus infection based on consumption Zika-related news. Results from an online survey (N = 510) confirmed that third-person perception exists among participants. Individual posting ZIKA-related news SNSs was negatively associated with perception. Additionally, correlated preventive behavioral intention. A moderated mediation model analysis revealed attention significantly moderates indirect...

In today's new media landscape, consuming content is only part of the equation. Media consumers also enjoy various avenues by which they can produce and share content. This combination producing has been termed ‘prosuming’. Rather than being preserve intellectual elite, virtually any consumer be a producer too given relative affordability accessibility ICT platforms. production satisfying because it allows individuals to flex their creative energies empowering enables people make views...

AbstractThis study reviews the status of image management research published in public relations-specific journals, as well broader management, business, strategic communication, and communication to extrapolate important trends for future practice. A content analysis relevant (n = 261) was conducted based on several criteria (area focus, application group, country study, methodology, theory or conceptual framework, type focus image, medium). Findings suggest two considerations...

ABSTRACTWith a total of 2.5 billion subscribers, Asia’s leadership in worldwide mobile communication calls for systematic review the academic research on Asian countries. By reviewing 120 articles published 18 top-ranking refereed journals from 1995 to 2015, this study identified prominent increase output covering multiple subfields over past 20 years, marked by accelerated growth beginning 2005. This rise appears be product global scholarship. Limitations current literature were also...

This study investigates individual motivations to contribute charitable crowdfunding campaigns from the collective action perspective. A three-group post-test with control experiment (personal source: close friends, family v. impersonal: organizational source control: no known source) accounting for predispositions (cause involvement, altruism, attitude toward crowdfunding, prior experience) was done. No significant effect of personalness found. Instead, a main on likelihood donate campaign...

This study expands relationship management theory by testing the linkages between perceived relational quality, organizational impression, and attitude in affecting behavioral intention of customer public five major banks. A survey 1,178 banking customers showed that individual attitude, significantly affected supportive behaviors. Organizational impression was found to be almost three times more determinant than quality individuals' attitudes, subsequently, their By highlighting role...