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Sei-Ching Joanna Sin
Researcher at Nanyang Technological University
Publications - 56
Citations - 1909
Sei-Ching Joanna Sin is an academic researcher from Nanyang Technological University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Information literacy. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 56 publications receiving 1571 citations. Previous affiliations of Sei-Ching Joanna Sin include University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Why Students Share Misinformation on Social Media: Motivation, Gender, and Study-level Differences
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that over 60% of respondents had shared misinformation on social media, and the top reasons were related to the information's perceived characteristics, as well as self-expression and socializing.
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International students' everyday life information seeking: The informational value of social networking sites
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed international students' everyday life information needs, their usage of social networking sites for ELIS, and the relationships among demographics, personality traits, SNS usage, and perceived usefulness of the acquired daily life information.
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Altmetrics: an analysis of the state-of-the-art in measuring research impact on social media
TL;DR: An overview of the altmetrics landscape is provided, comparing tool features, social media data sources, and social media events provided by altmetric aggregators, and a meta-analysis across more than 40 cross-metric validation studies shows overall a weak correlation.
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Undergraduates’ Use of Social Media as Information Sources
TL;DR: A snapshot of current trends in terms of the use of social media as information sources is provided and light is shed on the actions that the undergraduate students took to evaluate information from social media, including social networking and video sharing sites that have rarely been studied previously.
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Individual Differences in Social Media Use for Information Seeking
TL;DR: Because many students are actively using social media platforms for a variety of information-seeking purposes, it is suggested that IL programs embrace social media as potential information sources and offer effective strategies for using and evaluating these increasingly popular social media sources.