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S. Shyam Sundar
Researcher at Pennsylvania State University
Publications - 236
Citations - 13245
S. Shyam Sundar is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Interactivity & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 210 publications receiving 10261 citations. Previous affiliations of S. Shyam Sundar include Penn State College of Communications & Sungkyunkwan University.
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Uses and Grats 2.0: New Gratifications for New Media
TL;DR: Rubin and Ruggiero as discussed by the authors pointed out that measures designed for older media are used to capture gratifications from newer media, and that gratifications are conceptualized and operationalized too broadly (e.g., information-seeking), thus missing the nuanced gratifications obtained from modern media.
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Conceptualizing Sources in Online News
S. Shyam Sundar,Clifford Nass +1 more
TL;DR: This paper proposed a typology of sources that would apply not only to traditional media but also to new online media and investigated the effects of different types of source attributions upon receivers' perception of online news content.
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Explicating Web Site Interactivity: Impression Formation Effects in Political Campaign Sites
TL;DR: The results indicate that the level of Web site interactivity influenced participants’ perceptions of the candidate as well as their levels of agreement with his policy positions.
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Personalization versus customization: The importance of agency, privacy, and power usage
TL;DR: This study tested a news-aggregator Website that was either personalized (system-tailored), customized (user-tailor), or neither, and found significant three-way interactions were found for sense of control and perceived convenience.
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The Psychological Appeal of Personalized Content in Web Portals: Does Customization Affect Attitudes and Behavior?
TL;DR: In this article, a between-subjects experiment (N = 60) with three levels of customization (low, medium, high) was designed to examine whether greater levels of personalized content engender more positive attitudes.