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Predicting Dissemination of News Content in Social Media: A Focus on Reception, Friending, and Partisanship
Brian E. Weeks,R. Lance Holbert +1 more
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In this article, the authors focus on social media news reception and friending a journalist/news organization as predictors of social media dissemination, and find that reception is a stronger predictor of dissemination among partisans, while the friending-dissemination link is evident for nonpartisans only.Abstract:
Social media are an emerging news source, but questions remain regarding how citizens engage news content in this environment. This study focuses on social media news reception and friending a journalist/news organization as predictors of social media news dissemination. Secondary analysis of 2010 Pew data (N = 1,264) reveals reception and friending to be positive predictors of dissemination, and a reception-by-friending interaction is also evident. Partisanship moderates these relationships such that reception is a stronger predictor of dissemination among partisans, while the friending-dissemination link is evident for nonpartisans only. These results provide novel insights into citizens’ social media news experiences.read more
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