Information Re-Sharing on Social Network Sites in the Age of Fake News

Aim/Purpose: In the light of the recent attention to the role of social media in the dissemination of fake news, it is important to understand the relationship between the characteristics of the social media content and re-sharing behavior. This study seeks to examine individual level antecedents of information re-sharing behavior including individual beliefs about the quality of information available on social network sites (SNSs), attitude towards SNS use and risk perceptions and attitudes. Methodology: Testing the research model by data collected through surveys that were adminis-tered to test the research model. Data was collected from undergraduate students in a public university in the US. Contribution: This study contributes to theory in Information Systems by addressing the issue of information quality in the context of information re-sharing on social media. This study has important practical implications for SNS users and providers alike. Ensuring that information available on SNS is of high quality is critical to maintaining a healthy user base. Findings: Results indicate that attitude toward using SNSs and intention to re-share infor-mation on SNSs is influenced by perceived information quality (enjoyment, rele-vance, and reliability). Also, risk-taking propensity and enjoyment influence the intention to re-share information on SNSs in a positive direction. Future Research: In the dynamic context of SNSs, the role played by quality of information is changing. Understanding changes in quality of information by conducting longitudinal studies and experiments and including the role of habits is necessary.

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PENGARUH KUALITAS INFORMASI DAN KUALITAS LAYANAN TERHADAP SIKAP DALAM PENGGUNAAN SISTEM APLIKASI DENGAN KEMUDAHAN PENGGUNAAN SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING PADA JASA TRANSPORTASI ONLINE (GOJEK) DI YOGYAKARTA

Kajian Bisnis STIE Widya Wiwaha ◽

10.32477/jkb.v27i2.345 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 119-133

Author(s):

Putri Aprilia Isnaini ◽

Ida Bagus Nyoman Udayana

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Quality Of Service ◽

Information Quality ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Ease Of Use ◽

Quality Of Services ◽

Quality Of Information ◽

Transportation Services ◽

Application Systems

This writing is done to determine the effect of information quality and service quality on attitudes in the use of application systems with the ease of use of the system as an intervining variable in online transportation services (gojek) in Yogyakarta. The sample in this study is customers who use online motorcycle transportation services in Yogyakarta. The sampling technique uses accidental sampling technique. Data collection is done by distributing online questionnaires through the Goegle form and distributed with social media such as WhatsApp and Instagram on a 1-4 scale to measure 4 indicators. The results of this study show 1) the quality of information affects the ease of use, 2) the quality of service affects the ease of use, 3) the quality of information influences attitudes in use, 4) the quality of services does not affect attitudes in use, and 5) ease of use attitude in use.

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The Nature and Role of User Beliefs Regarding a Website's Design Quality

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing ◽

10.4018/joeuc.2020010105 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 75-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Camille Grange ◽

Henri Barki

Keyword(s):

Information Quality ◽

Past Research ◽

Design Guidelines ◽

Ease Of Use ◽

Research Model ◽

System Quality ◽

Design Quality ◽

It Acceptance

Researchers and practitioners have long been interested in identifying the criteria that users consider important in assessing whether a system is worth using. However, past research in this domain has not taken into account the characteristics of a system's design and their quality in a systematic and comprehensive manner, which is likely to have limited the development of actionable design guidelines. The article addresses this issue by suggesting a research model that links user beliefs—which have traditionally been used in IT acceptance and success research (i.e., information quality, system quality, usefulness, and ease of use)—to their beliefs regarding the quality of three categories of a system's design (i.e., visual quality, page layout quality, and navigation quality) and testing it in the context of organizational intranets. The analysis of data collected from 159 intranet website users in three organizations supported the model, suggesting that the three categories of design quality beliefs significantly influenced users' assessment of their system's information quality and system quality.

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The small, disloyal fake news audience: The role of audience availability in fake news consumption

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/1461444818758715 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (10) ◽

pp. 3720-3737 ◽

Cited By ~ 46

Author(s):

Jacob L Nelson ◽

Harsh Taneja

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

News Media ◽

Presidential Election ◽

Social Network Sites ◽

High Availability ◽

Small Subset ◽

Fake News ◽

Media Environment ◽

Internet Users

In light of the recent US election, many fear that “fake news” has become a force of enormous reach and influence within the news media environment. We draw on well-established theories of audience behavior to argue that the online fake news audience, like most niche content, would be a small subset of the total news audience, especially those with high availability. By examining online visitation data across mobile and desktop platforms in the months leading up to and following the 2016 presidential election, we indeed find the fake news audience comprises a small, disloyal group of heavy Internet users. We also find that social network sites play an outsized role in generating traffic to fake news. With this revised understanding, we revisit the democratic implications of the fake news crisis.

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Pathways to political (dis-)engagement: motivations behind social media use and the role of incidental and intentional exposure modes in adolescents’ political engagement

Communications ◽

10.1515/commun-2019-2054 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (s1) ◽

pp. 671-693 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Raffael Heiss ◽

Johannes Knoll ◽

Jörg Matthes

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Network ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Social Network Sites ◽

Political Engagement ◽

Online Engagement ◽

The Social ◽

Intentional Mode ◽

The Relationship

AbstractBased on the Social Media Political Participation Model (SMPPM), this study investigates the relationship between four key motivations behind the use of Social Network Sites (SNS) and political engagement among adolescents. We collected our data in a paper-pencil survey with 15- to 20-year-old adolescents (N=294), a highly underexplored group, which is most active on social media. We theorize that adolescents’ user motivations are related to political engagement via two modes of exposure: The intentional mode, which is related to active information seeking, and the incidental mode, in which adolescents run into politics only by accident. We found that political information and self-expression motivations were positively related to political engagement via the intentional mode. By contrast, entertainment motivations were negatively related to offline, but not to online engagement via the incidental mode.

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TikTok as a Health Information Source: Assessment of the Quality of Information in Diabetes-Related Videos

Journal of Medical Internet Research ◽

10.2196/30409 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (9) ◽

pp. e30409

Author(s):

Wenwen Kong ◽

Shijie Song ◽

Yuxiang Chris Zhao ◽

Qinghua Zhu ◽

Ling Sha

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Social Media ◽

Nonprofit Organizations ◽

Health Information ◽

Information Quality ◽

Quality Of Information ◽

Disease Symptoms ◽

For Profit ◽

Definition Of

Background Diabetes has become one of the most prevalent chronic diseases, and many people living with diabetes use social media to seek health information. Recently, an emerging social media app, TikTok, has received much interest owing to its popularity among general health consumers. We notice that there are many videos about diabetes on TikTok. However, it remains unclear whether the information in these videos is of satisfactory quality. Objective This study aimed to assess the quality of the information in diabetes-related videos on TikTok. Methods We collected a sample of 199 diabetes-related videos in Chinese. The basic information presented in the videos was coded and analyzed. First, we identified the source of each video. Next, 2 independent raters assessed each video in terms of the completeness of six types of content (the definition of the disease, symptoms, risk factors, evaluation, management, and outcomes). Then, the 2 raters independently assessed the quality of information in the videos, using the DISCERN instrument. Results In regard to the sources of the videos, we found 6 distinct types of uploaders; these included 3 kinds of individual users (ie, health professionals, general users, and science communicators) and 3 types of organizational users (ie, news agencies, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit organizations). Regarding content, our results show that the videos were primarily about diabetes management and contained limited information on the definition of the disease, symptoms, risk factors, evaluation, and outcomes. The overall quality of the videos was acceptable, on average, although the quality of the information varied, depending on the sources. The videos created by nonprofit organizations had the highest information quality, while the videos contributed by for-profit organizations had the lowest information quality. Conclusions Although the overall quality of the information in the diabetes videos on TikTok is acceptable, TikTok might not fully meet the health information needs of patients with diabetes, and they should exercise caution when using TikTok as a source of diabetes-related information.

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NIAT PENGGUNAAN APLIKASI E-PATIENT: EFEK INFORMASI MEDIA SOSIAL TERHADAP KEPERCAYAAN

ProBank ◽

10.36587/probank.v4i2.514 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 251-262

Author(s):

Berlian Yunita Margiati ◽

Didik Setyawan ◽

Finisha Mahaestri Noor

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Information Quality ◽

Source Credibility ◽

Perceived Value ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Equation Model ◽

Intention To Use

This study aims to examine the role of information through social media in the form of information that can encourage individual intention to use e-patient. Establishment of intention to use the e-patient by the trust that was formed from the information quality, perceived value and source credibility. The sampling technique is purposive sampling with a population users of social media RSUD Dr. Moewardi Surakarta counted 200 respondents. Hypothesis testing is done by the analysis of Structural Equation Model (SEM) using AMOS. The results of this study indicate that individual intentions to use e-patient applications as a means of supporting the hospital significantly make information quality to trust, perceived value of trust, source credibility to trust, and trust in the goal of using the e-patient application. These results provide meaning intended to make the intention to use the e-patient application through trust can be given by the quality of information, perceived value, and the source credibility of the e-patient application.

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TikTok as a Health Information Source: Assessment of the Quality of Information in Diabetes-Related Videos (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.30409 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Wenwen Kong ◽

Shijie Song ◽

Yuxiang Chris Zhao ◽

Qinghua Zhu ◽

Ling Sha

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Social Media ◽

Nonprofit Organizations ◽

Health Information ◽

Information Quality ◽

Quality Of Information ◽

Disease Symptoms ◽

For Profit ◽

Definition Of

BACKGROUND Diabetes has become one of the most prevalent chronic diseases, and many people living with diabetes use social media to seek health information. Recently, an emerging social media app, TikTok, has received much interest owing to its popularity among general health consumers. We notice that there are many videos about diabetes on TikTok. However, it remains unclear whether the information in these videos is of satisfactory quality. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the quality of the information in diabetes-related videos on TikTok. METHODS We collected a sample of 199 diabetes-related videos in Chinese. The basic information presented in the videos was coded and analyzed. First, we identified the source of each video. Next, 2 independent raters assessed each video in terms of the completeness of six types of content (the definition of the disease, symptoms, risk factors, evaluation, management, and outcomes). Then, the 2 raters independently assessed the quality of information in the videos, using the DISCERN instrument. RESULTS In regard to the sources of the videos, we found 6 distinct types of uploaders; these included 3 kinds of individual users (ie, health professionals, general users, and science communicators) and 3 types of organizational users (ie, news agencies, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit organizations). Regarding content, our results show that the videos were primarily about diabetes management and contained limited information on the definition of the disease, symptoms, risk factors, evaluation, and outcomes. The overall quality of the videos was acceptable, on average, although the quality of the information varied, depending on the sources. The videos created by nonprofit organizations had the highest information quality, while the videos contributed by for-profit organizations had the lowest information quality. CONCLUSIONS Although the overall quality of the information in the diabetes videos on TikTok is acceptable, TikTok might not fully meet the health information needs of patients with diabetes, and they should exercise caution when using TikTok as a source of diabetes-related information.

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Kekhawatiran Privasi pada Kesuksesan Adopsi FinTech menggunakan Model DeLone dan McLean

Performance ◽

10.20884/1.jp.2020.27.1.2250 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 60

Author(s):

Dhiona Ayu Nani ◽

Lia Febria Lina

Keyword(s):

Industry 4.0 ◽

Information Quality ◽

Intention To Use ◽

Privacy Concern ◽

Quality Of Information ◽

Privacy Concerns ◽

Intention To Adopt ◽

Delone And Mclean

ABSTRACT Industry 4.0 has produced many changes in all fields of industry, one of which is FinTech as an innovation in the financial sector. This study aims to fill the gaps of various previous studies by testing the DeLone and McLean Models. As well as testing how the role of privacy concerns can reduce perceptions of information quality in intentions to use FinTech. The object of this research is SMEs in Indonesia. The results of this study indicate that perceptions about the quality of information and services have a positive and significant effect on intention to use FinTech. The factor of privacy concern as a moderating variable has an important role in influencing the intention to adopt technology, so someone who has high concerns can reduce the intention to use online loans. OJK as the owner of the highest authority in the field of finance and banking, is expected to be able to guarantee the safety of online loans, in order to reduce the concerns of MSME owners regarding data that might be misused if using online loans.

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How Less Alienation Creates More Exploitation? Audience Labour on Social Network Sites.

tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society ◽

10.31269/triplec.v10i2.392 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 171-183 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Eran Fisher

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Political Economy ◽

Social Network ◽

Mass Media ◽

Social Network Sites ◽

Active Role ◽

The Media ◽

A Site

Abstract: The notion of audience labour has been an important contribution to Marxist political economy of the media. It revised the traditional political economy analysis, which focused on media ownership, by suggesting that media was also a site of production, constituting particular relations of production. Such analysis highlighted the active role of audience in the creation of media value as both commodities and workers, thus pointing to audience exploitation. Recently, in light of paradigmatic transformations in the media environment – particularly the emergence of Web 2.0 and social network sites – there has been a renewed interest in such analysis, and a reexamination of audience exploitation. Focusing on Facebook as a case-study, this article examines audience labour on social network sites along two Marxist themes – exploitation and alienation. It argues for a historical shift in the link between exploitation and alienation of audience labour, concurrent with the shift from mass media to social media. In the mass media, the capacity for exploitation of audience labour was quite limited while the alienation that such work created was high. In contrast, social media allows for the expansion and intensification of exploitation. Simultaneously, audience labour on social media – because it involves communication and sociability – also ameliorates alienation by allowing self-expression, authenticity, and relations with others. Moreover, the article argues that the political economy of social network sites is founded on a dialectical link between exploitation and alienation: in order to be de-alienated, Facebook users must communicate and socialize, thus exacerbating their exploitation. And vice-versa, in order for Facebook to exploit the work of its users, it must contribute to their de-alienation.

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