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Investigating influential factors influencing users to share news in social media: a diffusion of innovations perspective

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Results indicate that opinion leadership was the strongest factor predicting users' news sharing, followed by news attribute and tie strength, and Unexpectedly, it was found that homophily hampered news sharing in social media.
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This study aims to investigate the factors influencing news sharing in social media. Drawing from the diffusion of innovations theory (DOI), the influential factors identified are opinion leadership, homophily, tie strength, and news attributes. By incorporating social network analysis with multiple regression analysis, our results indicate that opinion leadership was the strongest factor predicting users' news sharing, followed by news attribute and tie strength. Unexpectedly, we also found that homophily hampered news sharing in social media. Implications are discussed

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News Sharing in Social Media: A Review of Current Research on News Sharing Users, Content, and Networks

TL;DR: Three central areas of research—news sharing users, content, and networks—were identified and systematically reviewed and used to provide a critical diagnosis of current research and suggestions on how to move forward in news sharing research.
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Active audiences and social discussion on the digital public sphere. Review article

TL;DR: A review of the academic literature with regard to the forms of social deliberation adopted in the context of the media and social networks and its impact on the public sphere can be found in this article.
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Using diffusion of innovation theory and sentiment analysis to analyze attitudes toward driving adoption by Saudi women

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed the diffusion of innovation (DOI) framework to provide a deeper understanding of the recent debate on whether women in Saudi Arabia should be granted the right to drive.
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Influence agenda setting through Twitter for health promotion

TL;DR: The first chapter of this monograph discusses the development and use of artificial intelligence in the field of medicine and some of the techniques used, as well as some of its applications, in clinical practice.
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Diffusion of Innovations

TL;DR: A history of diffusion research can be found in this paper, where the authors present a glossary of developments in the field of Diffusion research and discuss the consequences of these developments.
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Diffusion of innovations

TL;DR: Upon returning to the U.S., author Singhal’s Google search revealed the following: in January 2001, the impeachment trial against President Estrada was halted by senators who supported him and the government fell without a shot being fired.
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News sharing in social media: The effect of gratifications and prior experience

TL;DR: Results from structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis revealed that respondents who were driven by gratifications of information seeking, socializing, entertainment, status seeking, and status seeking were more likely to share news in social media platforms.
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Opinion leadership in a computer-mediated environment

TL;DR: This article investigated the characteristics of opinion leaders within the computer-mediated environment, analyzed the differences between online opinion leaders and online non-leaders and examined the implications of opinion leadership theory for e-commerce.
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