scholarly journals Online news recommendations credibility: The tie is mightier than the source

Comunicar ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (60) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tal Samuel-Azran ◽  
Tsahi Hayat
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Online News ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
News Source ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Source ◽  
The Media

In this paper, we wish to examine the perceived credibility of news items shared through Social Networking Sites (SNS) –specifically, as a function of tie strength and perceived credibility of the media source from which the content originated. We utilized a between-subjects design. The Facebook account of each participant (N=217) was analyzed. Based on this analysis, our participants were shown a fictitious Facebook post that was presumably shared by one of their Facebook friends with whom they had either a strong social tie (experiment group), or a weak social tie (control group). All recipients were then asked about their perceptions regarding the news source (from which the item presumably originated), and their perception regarding thecredibility of the presented item. Our findings indicate that the strength of the social tie between the sharer of the item and its recipient mediates the effect of the credibility perception regarding the news source, and the perceived item credibility, as well as the likelihood of searching for additional information regarding the topic presented in the shared item. Se examina en este trabajo la credibilidad percibida de las noticias compartidas a través de los sitios de redes sociales (RRSS), específicamente, en función de la fuerza de enlace y la credibilidad percibida de la fuente de los medios de la cual se originó el contenido. Utilizamos un diseño entre sujetos. Se analizó la cuenta de Facebook de cada participante (N=217). Sobre la base de este análisis, a nuestros participantes se les mostró una publicación ficticia de Facebook que supuestamente fue compartida por uno de sus amigos de Facebook con los que tenían un vínculo social fuerte (grupo experimental) o un vínculo social débil (grupo de control). Luego se les preguntó a todos los destinatarios acerca de sus percepciones con respecto a la fuente de noticias (de la cual se suponía que se originó el artículo), y su percepción con respecto a la credibilidad del artículo presentado. Nuestros hallazgos indican que la fuerza del vínculo social entre el que comparte el elemento y su destinatario media el efecto de la percepción de credibilidad con respecto a la fuente de noticias, y la credibilidad percibida del elemento, así como la posibilidad de buscar información adicional sobre el tema presentado en el elemento compartido.

scholarly journals Getting Moving Together; a field experiment on workplace physical activity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sanders ◽  
Karen Tindall ◽  
Alex Gyani ◽  
Susannah Hume ◽  
Min-Taec Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Baseline Activity ◽  
The Social

Importance: Wearable devices are widely used in an effort to increase physical activity and consequently to improve health. The evidence for this is patchy, and it does not appear that wearables alone are sufficient to achieve this end.Objective: To determine whether social comparisons in a workplace setting can increase the effectiveness of wearables at promoting physical activity.Design: A four week randomized controlled trial conducted in November 2015 with employees of a large firm. Participants were randomised to one of two treatment conditions (control vs social comparison) at team level, and teams are formed into ‘leagues’ based on their activity levels before the study. Impact is measured through wearable devices issued to all participants throughout the study duration.Setting: Offices of a large Australian employer.Participants: 646 employees of an Australian employer, issued with wearable activity trackers prior to the beginning of the study. Intervention(s) (for clinical trials) or Exposure(s) (for observational studies). Participants used a wearable device to track steps. Participants had been wearing these for at least four weeks at the outset of the trial, establishing a baseline level of activity. Teams (n=646, k=49), were randomly assigned to either control (k=24), or a social comparison (k=25) treatment. All participants took part in a step-count competition between their team and others at their employer, in which their team’s ranking within a mini-league of five teams, as well as their own activity was communicated each week. The control group had access to the usual features of the wearable, while the social comparison group received additional information about the performance of the other teams in their league, including how far behind and ahead their nearest rival teams were.Main Outcome(s) and Measure(s): Number of steps taken per day on average, measured by the wearable devices issued to all participants. Results: A total of 646 participants were included in the study. Compared to the control, participants in the social comparison group took significantly more steps per day during the trial period (an additional 620 steps, 8.2%, p<0.001). These effects are largest in both relative and absolute terms for people whose prior steps were in the bottom quartile of steps (an additional 948 steps, 40%, p<0.001), while the effect on people with highest levels of activity was a precisely estimated null (an additional 6 steps, 0.01%, p=0.98).Conclusions and Relevance: Social comparison increased the effectiveness of wearables at improving physical activity, particularly for those with the lowest baseline activity.

Editorial: Technological addictions: The rise of social networks / Adicciones tecnológicas: El auge de las redes sociales

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. García del Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Behavioral Addictions ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Substance Addiction ◽  
Extra Effort ◽  
The Social ◽  
Comprehensive Manner ◽  
Technological Addictions

Las llamadas adiciones conductuales, entre ellas Internet, siguen encontrándose en un limbo científico por las dificultades que entraña discriminar adecuadamente entre conductas, en principio normales, y patologías que podríamos considerar adictivas. La literatura científica ha sabido conceptualizar las adicciones a sustancias de una forma exhaustiva y ahora apuesta por delimitar las adicciones conductuales y sus consecuentes comportamientos de abuso en función de parámetros que están relacionados con la frecuencia de uso, el dinero invertido, la necesidad o la compulsión, así como las interferencias que puede provocar en la vida cotidiana de una persona consiguiendo que deje de cumplir sus obligaciones. Con la llegada de los Servicios de Redes Sociales (SRS) y su amplia repercusión, nos encontramos con un nuevo frente susceptible de adicción. Estos servicios, además de su atractivo y funcionalidad, cuentan con la facilidad de conexión en cualquier momento y desde cualquier lugar, lo que los convierte en potentes reforzadores inmediatos, el mejor caldo de cultivo para una adicción. Somos plenamente conscientes de que no es posible adelantarse a las tecnologías y, mucho menos, a sus posibles consecuencias, pero sería necesario profundizar más en el estado actual de las adicciones tecnológicas, en el sentido de cómo predecir su aparición entre los más jóvenes y cómo combatir terapéuticamente de una forma eficaz sus consecuentes. AbstractBehavioral addictions including Internet addiction still remaining in a scientific limbo because of the difficulties related to a properly differentiation between normal and pathological behaviors.  Literature has conceptualized substance addiction in a comprehensive manner and now stands for define the behavioral addictions and their consequential abuse behaviors as a function of parameters related to use frequency, money invested, need or compulsion, as well as the interferences in people’s daily lives that may lead them to default on their obligations. As a consequence of the advent of the Social Networking Sites (SNS) and their wide impact among population we may find a new addiction context. These services in addition to their appealing and functionality have an easy connection everywhere at any time, which makes them powerful and immediately enhancers, becoming a breeding ground for an addiction. We are fully aware that is not possible to keep ahead to the technologies and neither their consequences but extra effort is still needed to understand their mechanisms, how can we predict the appearance among young people and how can we fight therapeutically against their consequences.

scholarly journals Islamophobia and the media are the determinants of the Arab media's coverage of the phenomenon in the social media era

2021 ◽  
pp. 86-116
Author(s):  
ياسين صدوقي
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Television News ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Television Channel ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Religious Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

This study seeks to identify the methods and methods of covering Islamophobia by Arab news channels، and that was set in the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel and alaraby television channel That broadcasts from England. This choice comes because they are affiliated to a television news complex that has huge (financial and human) capabilities that make them broadcast on a large scale. Therefore, we aim in this study to discover the most prominent determinants and foundations of coverage of the phenomenon of Islamophobia in an era in which social networking sites exploded and became a major driver in many issues, and the religious media was absent from the agenda of the traditional media.

scholarly journals The cult of the body and its psychological consequences among adolescent girls

2018 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Iwanicka ◽  
Jolanta Masiak ◽  
Joanna Księska-Koszałka ◽  
Gabriela Zdunek ◽  
Andy R. Eugene ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Adolescent Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

Abstract Taking into consideration the problem of “the cult of the body” among young women, the sociocultural context of their upbringing should be analyzed. Nowadays, it can be observed that many young women actively participate in promoting “the cult of the body”. The aim of the aforementioned actions is to get a slim, attractive figure consistent with the trends of women’s attractiveness promoted in the media. The analysis of the social networking sites and blogs indicates that more and more often women themselves are encouraged to promote their attractive, thin image in the Internet. This article will attempt to characterize the phenomenon of “the cult of the body”, in which adolescent women are engaged and which shapes their image of the body and has a potential influence on psychological and physical aspects of their existence. The analysis of the results of the research takes into account the analyzed subject and developmental conditioning of the time of adolescence in the context of sociocultural changes.

scholarly journals Noticias falsas y libertad de expresión e información. El control de los contenidos informativos en la red

2018 ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Pauner Chulvi
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
News Source ◽  
The Social ◽  
La Red ◽  
The Eu

Los resultados de la elección presidencial en Estados Unidos o el voto en Reino Unido para abandonar la Unión Europea (Brexit) han suscitado preguntas sobre la influencia de las noticias falsas originadas en páginas web creadas al efecto y difundidas rápidamente a través de las redes sociales. En la medida en que la gente utiliza las redes sociales como fuente principal de información, desde los gobiernos de los Estados miembros y la propia UE se ha solicitado la colaboración de las empresas tecnológicas para filtrar estos contenidos dañinos que amenazan con la desinformación generalizada de la ciudadanía. En el análisis reflexionamos acerca de los problemas derivados del control de los contenidos de Internet y, más concretamente, cuál debe ser la respuesta legítima a la desinformación, cuáles son los riesgos que se pueden derivar de la imposición de filtrado y etiquetado de la información, la posibilidad de encontrarnos ante un sistema de censura privada que ponga en riesgo el pluralismo de la red, o el peligro de arbitrariedad en la construcción del algoritmo de filtrado o su eficacia ante ejercicio de la libertad de expresión en diversos contextos (como la ironía o el humor), entre otras cuestiones.The results of the presidential election in the United States or the vote in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union (Brexit) have raised questions about the influence of the fake news originated in web pages created to the effect and quickly disseminated through the social media. As people turn to social networks as a primary news source, the Member States’ governments and the EU have requested the collaboration of technology companies to filter out these harmful contents that are threatening to cause misinformation of citizens. In our analysis we reflect on the problems arising from the control of Internet content and, more specifically, what should the legitimate response to disinformation be, what the risks are derived from the imposition of filtering and labelling of information, the possibility of creating a system of private censorship that jeopardizes the pluralism of the network, or the danger of arbitrariness in the construction of the filtering algorithm and its effectiveness in the exercise of freedom of expression in various contexts (such as irony or humour), among other issues.

scholarly journals The Efficacy of Facebook as a Tool in Criminal Investigations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Zajac
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Online News ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
The Public ◽  
Police Investigation ◽  
Intended Purpose ◽  
News Source ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings

June 15, 2011 marked the date of the Vancouver riots that followed the Canucks loss of the Stanley Cup final. Social media as a form of communication between the public and police was a distinguishing feature during the 2011 riots, and is compared to the context of a similar Vancouver riot occurring in 1994. Through the review of literature on the criminal justice system, crowdsourcing, social media as a tool in policing, surveillance, language on Facebook and Facebook as a communication tool I explore the practice of communication as it unfolds on the Facebook group, “Vancouver Riot Pics: Post Your Photos” and examine the efficacy of this communication tool. The Facebook comments underneath the uploaded images are evaluated through a content analysis. Five Facebook images and there associated comment threads are collected in chronological order for the sample based on the outlined criteria of: 25-40 comments, a non-manipulated image, and being published in either the Globe and Mail or the National Post online news source. Erving Goffman’s theoretical orientation of frame analysis is applied to understanding the development of the Facebook comments; more specifically his concept of the social primary framework is directly related to the intended purpose outlined by the Facebook group. The purpose of “Vancouver Riot Pics: Post Your Photos” is to identify rioters through the public’s contribution of images and Facebook comments. Research findings suggest that the intended purpose of the Facebook group is achieved, as there is a significant emergence of the frames identification and crowdsourcing; therefore, Facebook is deemed a helpful tool in police investigation.

scholarly journals Newsworthiness and the Public’s Response in Russian Social Media: A Comparison of State and Private News Organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darja Judina ◽  
Konstantin Platonov
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
News Values ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Media

Social media have become one of the most important news delivery channels due to their interactivity and large audiences. The content published by news organizations on social networking sites is of particular value to sociologists, because it allows measurement of users’ attitude to certain events. However, we understand that the media choose which events become news in accordance with certain criteria, such as news values. In this study, we decided to examine how news values determine the public’s response as expressed by likes, reposts, and comments. To analyze the characteristics of different media and their audiences, we selected four popular newsgroups on the social networking site Vkontakte: TASS and Russia Today, representing the state media, alongside RBC and Meduza, representing the private media. The posts of the selected newsgroups were coded and analyzed by means of Harcup and O’Neill taxonomy of values (2016). The study showed that news organizations tend to have preferences for some news values rather than others. Regression analysis revealed positive relationships between 1) the sharing of likes and good and entertaining content, 2) the sharing of comments and the presence of celebrities or conflicts in news, 3) the sharing of reposts and comments and significant events. An unexpected discovery was a negative dependency between the number of comments and the presence of exclusive content.

scholarly journals The Efficacy of Facebook as a Tool in Criminal Investigations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Zajac
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Online News ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
The Public ◽  
Police Investigation ◽  
Intended Purpose ◽  
News Source ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Findings

June 15, 2011 marked the date of the Vancouver riots that followed the Canucks loss of the Stanley Cup final. Social media as a form of communication between the public and police was a distinguishing feature during the 2011 riots, and is compared to the context of a similar Vancouver riot occurring in 1994. Through the review of literature on the criminal justice system, crowdsourcing, social media as a tool in policing, surveillance, language on Facebook and Facebook as a communication tool I explore the practice of communication as it unfolds on the Facebook group, “Vancouver Riot Pics: Post Your Photos” and examine the efficacy of this communication tool. The Facebook comments underneath the uploaded images are evaluated through a content analysis. Five Facebook images and there associated comment threads are collected in chronological order for the sample based on the outlined criteria of: 25-40 comments, a non-manipulated image, and being published in either the Globe and Mail or the National Post online news source. Erving Goffman’s theoretical orientation of frame analysis is applied to understanding the development of the Facebook comments; more specifically his concept of the social primary framework is directly related to the intended purpose outlined by the Facebook group. The purpose of “Vancouver Riot Pics: Post Your Photos” is to identify rioters through the public’s contribution of images and Facebook comments. Research findings suggest that the intended purpose of the Facebook group is achieved, as there is a significant emergence of the frames identification and crowdsourcing; therefore, Facebook is deemed a helpful tool in police investigation.

scholarly journals Interactive Youth and Civic Cultures: The Educational, Mediatic and Political Meaning of the 15M

Comunicar ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (40) ◽  
pp. 59-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Hernández-Merayo ◽  
Mª Carmen Robles-Vílchez ◽  
Juan Bautista Martínez-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Young People ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Media ◽  
Display Systems

This contribution is justified by the necessity of analyzing the participative content that the interactive youth transmitted in the use of ICTs and social networks in the origin of the social movement of the Spanish Revolution. Our objectives have been focused on proving how young people feel, live and experience the democratic citizenship by means of audiovisual display systems, participating in public open spaces where a better informed digital citizenship is being formed among the technological convergence, hypertextuality and non linearity. We have tried to identify both the educational content of their interactions and implications and the use of audiovisual display systems in their organization as a group. The methodology we have used is the in-depth case study in the days when people occupied public spaces. We collected observations, interviews, information from the social networks (Twitter, Facebook, n-1, Tuenti), news in the media and also information, posters and photographs generated during the occupation by the participants themselves. From this techno-educational point of view we analyze how these young people widen their communicative relationships and get connected on line creating new meanings for educational, social and political issues. The analysis of their speeches shows us a reappropriation of the ICTs by these young people who express and communicate publicly and contributing in this way with new points of view for the citizenship education. Esta aportación se justifica en la necesidad de analizar el contenido participativo que los jóvenes interactivos transmiten en el uso de TIC y de las redes sociales durante el origen del movimiento social del 15M. Los objetivos se han dirigido a comprobar cómo los jóvenes sienten, viven y experimentan la ciudadanía democrática a través de los soportes digitales y mediáticos, participando en el lugar público de la plaza donde se está formando una más informada ciudadanía digital entre la convergencia tecnológica, la hipertextualidad y la no linealidad. Se ha tratado de identificar tanto el contenido educativo de sus interacciones e implicaciones como el uso de los soportes digitales mediáticos en su organización colectiva. La metodología utilizada es el estudio de caso en profundidad, realizado durante los días de la acampada en la plaza pública, recogiendo observaciones, entrevistas, información de las redes sociales (Twitter, Facebook, n-1 y Tuenti), noticias de los medios de comunicación así como de los medios generados en la acampada, y todas las fotografías y cartelería del evento. Desde esta perspectiva tecnoeducativa se analiza cómo estos jóvenes ensanchan sus relaciones comunicativas y se conectan en red construyendo nuevos significados de lo educativo, lo social y lo político. El análisis de sus discursos nos descubre una reapropiación de los jóvenes de las TIC participando en la comunicación pública y aportando nuevas perspectivas para la educación ciudadana.

scholarly journals Twitter as a News Source in Data Journalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-431
Author(s):  
Marília Gehrke ◽  
Marcia Benetti
Keyword(s):  
Communication Channel ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
News Sources ◽  
News Source ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
Source Data ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Data Journalism

This paper discusses the use of Twitter as a news source, especially in data journalism. This practice uses public databases as sources for its investigations, but has now started to make use of less conventional sources, such as Twitter, which politicians now use as an official communication channel and thus avoid giving interviews to the press. In this study, we analyze news articles published over a period of a little less than two months by the data journalism team at Vortex Media. Our focus was on political coverage. Twitter may be classified as a reproductive or statistical documentary news sources, depending on the case. We argue that, by using this social networking site as a news source, data journalism could be able to provide new knowledge. Its limitations lie within the working order of the social network itself, which is highly mediated by algorithms and conditioned to spread disinformation.Este artigo discute o uso do Twitter como fonte, em especial no jornalismo guiado por dados. Conhecida por investigar a partir de bancos de dados públicos, esta prática tem acessado fontes menos convencionais, a exemplo da plataforma, à medida que os políticos a tratam como canal oficial de comunicação e evitam conceder entrevistas à imprensa. Neste estudo, analisamos notícias publicadas pela equipe de dados do site jornalístico Vortex Media em pouco menos de dois meses, observando que a cobertura política se destaca nesse contexto. O Twitter pode ser classificado como fonte documental do tipo reprodução ou estatística, dependendo do caso. Defendemos que o jornalismo guiado por dados tem potencial para promover conhecimento inédito a partir do uso desse site de rede social como fonte; suas limitações estão na própria condição da rede, mediada por algoritmos e propícia para o espalhamento de desinformação.Este artículo analiza el uso de Twitter como fuente, especialmente en el periodismo de datos. Conocido por investigar desde bases de datos públicas, esta práctica ha accedido a fuentes menos convencionales, como la plataforma, ya que los políticos la tratan como un canal oficial de comunicación y evitan dar entrevistas a la prensa. En este estudio, analizamos las noticias publicadas por el equipo de datos del sitio periodístico Vortex Media en poco menos de dos meses, señalando que la cobertura política se destaca en este contexto. Twitter puede clasificarse como fuente documental reproductiva o estadística, según el caso. Argumentamos que el periodismo de datos tiene el potencial de promover el conocimiento sin precedentes del uso de este sitio de redes sociales como fuente; sus limitaciones están en la condición de esta red, mediada por algoritmos y propicia para la difusión de la desinformación.

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