Effects of Uniqueness, News Valence, and Liking on Personalization of Company News

2020 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 890-912
Author(s):  
Cong Li ◽  
Cheng Hong ◽  
Zifei Fay Chen
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Favorable Attitude ◽  
News Article ◽  
News Story ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Negative News ◽  
News Credibility

Many online information systems are delivering personalized news to users today. The essence of this personalization process is to match a news article to the reader’s self-identity. However, prior studies mostly focus on matching a positive news story to a person’s desired identity. No known research has discussed the possibility of matching a negative news story to a person’s undesired identity. This study aims to fill this theoretical gap by testing a three-way interaction effect among news valence, identity desirability, and uniqueness on attitude toward the news story. Through a 2 × 2 × 2 between-subjects experiment, it is shown that a positive news story tends to generate a more favorable attitude when matched to the reader’s desired self-identity, whereas a negative news story will generate a more favorable attitude when matched to the person’s undesired self-identity, and such an effect is especially pronounced when the identity is unique. Perceived news credibility is found to partially mediate these effects.

Social credibility online: The role of online comments in assessing news article credibility

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivanka Pjesivac ◽  
Nicholas Geidner ◽  
Jaclyn Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Article ◽  
News Story ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
Source Expertise ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
Twitter Users

This 2 × 2 experimental study (N = 196) tested the effects of source expertise and opinion valence in readers’ comments on the credibility of an online news story about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Source expertise had a significant influence on perceptions of article credibility; articles were judged more credible when public comments embedded in the story were from expert sources (e.g., scientists) rather than nonexpert sources (e.g., Twitter users). Effects were larger on high-frequency news users, regardless of whether comments were for or against GMOs. Results suggest that Internet users mainly use the peripheral or heuristic route of information processing to evaluate online news credibility. The importance for online journalism of social heuristics via opinions of other people is discussed.

Statistical literacy and the news media

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Gelman ◽  
Deborah Nolan
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
News Article ◽  
Introductory Statistics ◽  
News Story ◽  
Statistical Literacy ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Statistics Course ◽  
Reported Study ◽  
Original Report

An important theme in an introductory statistics course is the connection between statistics and the outside world. Described in this chapter are assignments that can be useful in getting students to learn how to gather and process information presented in the news and scientific reports. These assignments seem to work well only when students have direction about how to do this kind of research. Three versions of the assignment are provided. In all three, students read a news story and the original report on which the article was based, and they complete a worksheet with guidelines for summarizing the reported study. In some versions students are supplied the news story and report and in another each student finds a news article and tracks down the original report on her own. Included here are our guidelines, example instructional packets, and the process we use to organize each type of assignment.

scholarly journals The differential effects of related and unrelated emotions on judgments about media messages

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rinaldo Kühne ◽  
Claudia Poggiolini ◽  
Werner Wirth
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
News Article ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Processing Depth ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Message

AbstractThe present study investigated the influence of related and unrelated emotions on judgments about a news article. An experimental study was designed to manipulate both the relatedness of an elicited emotion (i. e., anger) to the news article and processing depth. Following mood and emotion effects theory, related anger was expected to have a stronger effect on judgments about the media message than unrelated anger. Processing depth was expected to moderate this effect. The results showed a main effect of relatedness and a main effect of processing depth, but the interaction effect was not found. Implications of the findings for understanding how emotions influence the processing of media stimuli are discussed.

Mitigating the consequences of negative news: How constructive journalism enhances self-efficacy and news credibility

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110627
Author(s):  
Christian Staal Bruun Overgaard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Negative News ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
Broaden And Build Theory ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Constructive Journalism

An informed electorate is vital for a well-functioning democracy. Yet many citizens intentionally avoid the news because it evokes negative feelings of disempowerment and distrust. This study ( n = 270) investigated how social media exposure to a new journalistic approach, constructive journalism, influences news consumers. The results showed that constructive social media posts, as compared to negative posts, led to higher levels of positive affect, self-efficacy, and perceived news credibility. In line with the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, the effects on self-efficacy and news credibility were mediated by positive affect. A similar mediating role was found for negative affect, counter to the theoretical expectations. These findings shed new light on the broaden-and-build theory, suggesting parts of it generalize to the context of news exposure on social media. The findings also suggest that constructive journalism may be an effective way to mitigate some of the main drivers of news avoidance in the 21st century.

Ethics and Social Networking

2019 ◽  
pp. 1893-1923
Author(s):  
Ludwig Christian Schaupp ◽  
Lemuria Carter
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Ethical Implications

Thanks to recent technological advancements, social networking has seen unprecedented growth. Services such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have evolved from niche communities to active cyber-societies. In addition to an increase in the diffusion of social media, there has also been an increase in the amount and type of information that participants share in these online environments. In this paper, the authors integrate decision making research from three disciplines -marketing, theology and information systems - to explain information disclosure in online communities. They use these disciplines to provide a comprehensive review of existing literature and present innovative recommendations for research and practice. In particular, the authors recommend Potter's Box as a useful framework for evaluating the ethical implications of online information disclosure.

The differential portrayal of ‘sympathetic’ homicide victims in the media

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-331
Author(s):  
Jessica Bouchard ◽  
Jennifer S. Wong ◽  
Kelsey Gushue
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Front Page ◽  
News Article ◽  
News Story ◽  
Structural Measures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Victims Of Crime ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

The over-representation of crime is a prevalent occurrence in the media; so too is the under-representation of certain types of victims of crime. The purpose of the current study is to explore the role that characteristics of homicide victims play in the presentation and prominence of a news story. The study uses a sample of 3,998 newspaper articles on homicide from the Vancouver Sun to assess the relationship between victims who are cumulatively portrayed as more ‘sympathetic’ and structural measures of prominence in newspapers (placement on the front page, inclusion of a photograph, length of article). The findings reflect a statistically significant relationship between victim characteristics and prominent placement of a news article. Practical implications are discussed in relation to how disproportionate reporting of marginalized victims contributes to, reinforces and reproduces further marginalization in society and by law enforcement.

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