scholarly journals The (non)use of likes, comments and shares of news in local online newspapers

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-217
Author(s):  
Mona Kristin Solvoll ◽  
Anders Olof Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Social Media Presence ◽  
Nationally Representative

This paper utilizes a nationally representative survey to gauge the ways in which media users engage with their local newspapers by using features that allow for sharing, liking, and commenting. The main results indicate that significant predictors for different types of news engagement vary, but that age and education emerge as two of the more interesting varieties. Implications are discussed—for instance, how both psychological and behavioral experiences constitute the concept engagement and how our results challenge the technology-optimistic argument that social media presence on a newspaper website promotes audience engagement in the journalistic process.

Chillin’ Effects of Fake News: Changes in Practices Related to Accountability and Transparency in American Newsrooms Under the Influence of Misinformation and Accusations Against the News Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 107769902098478
Author(s):  
Hong Tien Vu ◽  
Magdalena Saldaña
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Media Audiences ◽  
Role Conceptions ◽  
Nationally Representative

This study examines how newsroom work in the United States has changed in response to some of the latest developments in the news media environment. Using nationally representative survey data, we explore what professional routines American journalists have adopted to avoid spreading or being accused of publishing misinformation. Findings suggest that journalists have added new or intensified practices to increase accountability and transparency. In addition, role conceptions, perception of fake news, and responsibility for social media audiences impact the adoption of such practices. Journalists are more likely to embrace transparency than accountability, suggesting the emergence of new journalistic norms in today’s newsrooms.

scholarly journals NEGOTIATING PROFESSIONAL BELONGINGS: FINNISH ACTORS’ AFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Soronen ◽  
Anu Koivunen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Audience Engagement ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Creative Workers ◽  
Social Media Presence ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Occupational Communities ◽  
Continuous Movements

This study addresses how creative workers’ social media presence affects their understandings of professional agency. Focusing on Finnish professional actors, we ask how social media practices inform and shape actors’ occupational self-conceptions and professional belongings. In the theoretical framework, we employ Baym’s notion of relational labour and read it through Berlant’s (1998) conceptualisation of intimacy as mobile attachments. The data is collected from 15 Finnish actors, eight freelancers and seven theatre employees, from June 2020 to March 2021 by using the diary-interview method. The analysis is based on a close reading of the interview material and diary entries in which participants describe their experiences and feelings concerning their presence, work-related connections, and promotion on Facebook and Instagram. The study indicates that for both theatre actors and freelancers their social media activities are entwined in their sense of professionalism and belongings to occupational communities of peers. They negotiate and speculate about their social media presence in relation to peer assessments in a way that involves continuous movements between visibility and invisibility and between independence and interdependence. Our study suggests that to understand the ambivalences involved in creative workers’ presence on social media platforms, it is important to broaden the investigation from strategic self-promotion and audience engagement to questions of professional identities and communities.

scholarly journals Overconfidence in news judgments is associated with false news susceptibility

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (23) ◽  
pp. e2019527118
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. Lyons ◽  
Jacob M. Montgomery ◽  
Andrew M. Guess ◽  
Brendan Nyhan ◽  
Jason Reifler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Relative Ability ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
False News ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
News Headlines

We examine the role of overconfidence in news judgment using two large nationally representative survey samples. First, we show that three in four Americans overestimate their relative ability to distinguish between legitimate and false news headlines; respondents place themselves 22 percentiles higher than warranted on average. This overconfidence is, in turn, correlated with consequential differences in real-world beliefs and behavior. We show that overconfident individuals are more likely to visit untrustworthy websites in behavioral data; to fail to successfully distinguish between true and false claims about current events in survey questions; and to report greater willingness to like or share false content on social media, especially when it is politically congenial. In all, these results paint a worrying picture: The individuals who are least equipped to identify false news content are also the least aware of their own limitations and, therefore, more susceptible to believing it and spreading it further.

Explaining the association of race and COVID-19 vaccination intentions: the role of behavioral beliefs and trust in COVID-19 information sources

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chioma Woko ◽  
Leeann Siegel ◽  
Robert Hornik
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Behavioral Beliefs ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
Nationally Representative

The development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a critical strategy for combatting the pandemic. However, in order for vaccination efforts to succeed, there must be widespread willingness to vaccinate. Prior research has found that Black Americans, who have already been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, report lower intentions to get a vaccine than do other populations. In this study, we investigate potential causes of this disparity, focusing on vaccine-related behavioral beliefs and trust in four COVID-19 information sources (mainstream media, social media, President Trump, and public health officials and agencies). Using a nationally-representative survey (n=889), we demonstrate that differences in vaccine beliefs explain the lower vaccine intentions reported by Black participants compared to non-Black participants. However, while we find associations between trust in information sources and vaccine beliefs, we do not find evidence that differences in trust accounted for the observed differences in vaccine beliefs by race. Furthermore, we found evidence of moderation; the association of trust in two sources, Trump and public health officials and agencies, with beliefs were smaller among Black participants. Overall, our results suggest that trust in information sources alone does not explain the observed relationship between race and vaccine beliefs. This relationship warrants further investigation.

scholarly journals Does Mode of Contact with Different Types of Social Relationships Predict Depression in Older Adults? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 2014-2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan R. Teo ◽  
HwaJung Choi ◽  
Sarah B. Andrea ◽  
Marcia Valenstein ◽  
Jason T. Newsom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Nationally Representative

Support for Censorship of Online and Offline Media: The Partisan Divide in Turkey

2020 ◽  
pp. 194016122093532
Author(s):  
Ali Çarkoğlu ◽  
Simge Andı
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Online News ◽  
Balance Theory ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
The World ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Flow Of Information

The increasing popularity of online news and social media sites has made it more difficult than ever to control the flow of information. However, governments across the world are successfully continuing to restrict access to content that adversely affects their interests. This study examines the determinants of public support for censorship, as public support is likely to influence governments’ ability to regulate information. Using the Balance Theory and nationally representative survey data from Turkey, we analyze the support for censorship of both online and offline media. Our results suggest that pro-censorship attitudes are positively associated with peoples’ sympathy for the censor.

scholarly journals Polarized platforms? How partisanship shapes perceptions of “algorithmic news bias”

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110341
Author(s):  
Mikhaila N. Calice ◽  
Luye Bao ◽  
Isabelle Freiling ◽  
Emily Howell ◽  
Michael A. Xenos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Media ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Media Bias ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
News Content ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
News Bias

The use of artificial intelligence-based algorithms for the curation of news content by social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter has upended the gatekeeping role long held by traditional news outlets. This has caused some US policymakers to argue that platforms are skewing news diets against them, and such claims are beginning to take hold among some voters. In a nationally representative survey experiment, we explore whether traditional models of media bias perceptions extend to beliefs about algorithmic news bias. We find that partisan cues effectively shape individuals’ attitudes about algorithmic news bias but have asymmetrical effects. Specifically, whereas in-group directional partisan cues stimulate bias perceptions for members of both parties, Democrats, but not Republicans, also respond to out-group cues. We conclude with a discussion about the implications for the formation of attitudes about new technologies and the potential for polarization.

Resonance

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Ghaziani
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Gallup Poll ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Gays And Lesbians ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines how Boystown can retain its queer character, how an increasing presence of straight residents affects this possibility, and how different types of sexual minorities perceive the cultural significance of gayborhoods in Chicago. Although Americans are more tolerant of gay people in general, one study, using nationally representative survey data from a Gallup poll, found that more than a quarter of Americans still prefer to not have them as their neighbors. Many gays and lesbians wonder about the right balance between inclusion and straight dominance in the gayborhood. The chapter considers the role of existing gayborhoods as safe harbors and think about how they can retain their cultural and institutional character despite the arrival of more straight newcomers.

Triggering Backlash

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Pan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Media Data

This chapter captures the backlash—increased protests and lower legitimacy—triggered by prioritizing Dibao for targeted populations. The survey of 100 neighborhoods shows that when targeted populations receive Dibao benefits, there is greater contention over Dibao distribution in the neighborhood. Those who are turned away from benefits are more likely to protest and bargain for Dibao. Using large-scale social media data and deep learning to extract unique, off-line collective action events, this chapter shows that welfare-related protests are higher among cities that have a higher level of Dibao provision to targeted populations than cities that have lower levels. Although local administrators are adept at defusing protests, and collective action remains small and localized, people are left resentful and embittered. Data from a nationally representative survey shows that cities with a higher level of Dibao provision to targeted populations have lower assessment of government capabilities, especially in welfare provision and public responsiveness, as well as lower levels of political trust and satisfaction.

How Repression Affects Public Perceptions of Police: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Uganda

2021 ◽  
pp. 002200272110130
Author(s):  
Travis Curtice
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
State Repression ◽  
The Social ◽  
Perceptions Of Police ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Ruling Party

What are the effects of state repression on public perceptions of police? And to what extent are these effects uniform or conditional on individuals’ loyalty to political authorities? I argue that repression by the police negatively affects how people evaluate the police, especially among those who do not support the ruling party. People who oppose the regime are more likely to fear the police following a repressive event relative to regime supporters. To test this argument, I leverage a unique research design opportunity that emerges from the social media tax protest led by Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (also known as Bobi Wine) and subsequent selective repression by the Uganda Police Force while a nationally representative survey on police and security was being administered in Uganda. I demonstrate selective repression of protesters decreased support for the police. These effects are largely driven by political loyalty; repression has a stronger effect on how members of the opposition evaluate the police relative to incumbent supporters.

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