• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.370-402
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• 2015

The dynamic capabilities of social media are changing the nature of contemporary news by allowing users to communicate and create content, deliver and share newsworthy information, and consume news. News organizations engage with social media because this computer-mediated tool provides an alternative platform for delivering news and connecting with global audiences. This role of social media is conceptualized as its complementarity. However, when mass user-generated-content is constantly shared with other users, more users are attracted to indulge in news-seeking activities on social media. This phenomenon potentially fulfills users' news requirements on social media, which is contrary to what news companies envisioned when they began engaging with social media. This dichotomous role of social media, providing complementarity and showing the potential for becoming a superior news medium, is conceptualized as its competing-complementarity. This paper offers preliminary evidence of competing-complementarity by analyzing the news consumption of individuals. Such consumption is explained through the theoretical perspective of punctuated equilibrium by conceptualizing news consumption as a deep structure radically impacted by a disruptive technology. Although social media benefit news organizations, its competing potential poses serious challenges to their monopolistic controls on news production, distribution, readership, and revenue generation.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.25-47
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• 2021

This study analyzes 419 fake news items published in India, a fake-news-prone country, to identify the major themes, content types, and sources of social media fake news. The results show that fake news shared on social media has six major themes: health, religion, politics, crime, entertainment, and miscellaneous; eight types of content: text, photo, audio, and video, text & photo, text & video, photo & video, and text & photo & video; and two main sources: online sources and the mainstream media. Health-related fake news is more common only during a health crisis, whereas fake news related to religion and politics seems more prevalent, emerging from online media. Text & photo and text & video have three-fourths of the total share of fake news, and most of them are from online media: online media is the main source of fake news on social media as well. On the other hand, mainstream media mostly produces political fake news. This study, presenting some novel findings that may help researchers to understand and policymakers to control fake news on social media, invites more academic investigations of religious and political fake news in India. Two important limitations of this study are related to the data source and data collection period, which may have an impact on the results.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.40-62
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• 2021

Are intentions important in deciding the outcome of an action such as sharing misinformation among social media users during the pandemic? What is their role and how far they are important for the very act of fake sharing news? The social media users' actions on the social platform are determined by what they plan to do themselves; however, their motivation has an immense role to play in the dissemination of fake news on social media. The study proposes a conceptual model for understanding how select factors affect fake news sharing motivation and intentions of social media users. The study scrutinizes the relationship between content and context, fear of missing out (FoMO), news verification and news sharing gratification on the motivation and intention of social media users of networked Asian society. Empirical Data were drawn from social media users (N = 243) from India, using an online questionnaire based on prior studies and structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was used to analyze the data collected. Results indicate that news content, news verification, and news sharing gratification have a direct and positive relationship with sharing motivation. On the other hand, news context and content, FoMO and news sharing gratification have a positive significant relationship with sharing intention. Likewise, it was discovered that news verification will decrease sharing intention of the social media users. However, news context, that is the pandemic in the case of the present study and FoMO were not identified as determinant variables for sharing motivation among social media users. The research limitations and further scope were discussed.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.53-70
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• 2024

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firms use social media to disseminate good news to various stakeholders thereby enhancing corporate social performance (CSP). Design/methodology/approach - This study collected data from various databases such as Korea Economic Justice Institute (KEJI) Index, VALUESearch, and TS2000, and such social media platforms as Instagram and Meta (formerly known as facebook). The sample of this study includes 3,474(firm-year) observations from 799 unique Korean firms between 2013-2022. This study conducts fixed effect panel regression analysis to test the hypotheses. Findings - First, we found both corporate use of social media, and the number of uploaded corporate news on social media were positively related to CSP. We also found that positive user reactions to the news on social media were positively related to CSP. Second, we examine the moderating roles of firm age in the relationships described above. The results show that firm age strengthens both the relationship between number of uploaded news on social media and CSP, and the relationship between positive user reactions to news on social media and CSP. Research implications or Originality - This study extends the social media research in the management literature by investigating how corporate use of social media, number of uploaded corporate news on social media, and the user reactions on the news on social media affect corporate social performance. For a practical implication, our results allow the stakeholders to better predict corporate future CSP. They suggest that ceteris paribus, firms that use social media actively, vis-a-vis firms that do not use social media actively, are more likely to get good CSP scores. They also suggest that such beneficial effects of social media will become more prominent as companies get older.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.18-32
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• 2021

Social media has become a popular source of information around the world. Previous studies explored different trends of social media news consumption. However, no studies have focused on Bangladesh to date, where social media penetration is very high in recent years. To fill this gap, this research aimed to understand its popularity trends during the period. For that reason, this work analyzes 97.67 million page likes and 3.48 billion interaction data collected from nine Bangladeshi news media's Facebook pages between December 2016 to November 2020. The analysis shows that the growth rates of page likes and interaction rates declined during this period. It suggests that the media's Facebook pages are gradually losing their popularity among Facebook users, which may have two more interpretations: Facebook's aggregate appeal as a news source is decreasing to users, or Bangladeshi media's appeal is eroding to Facebook users. These findings challenge the previous results, i.e., Facebook's demand as a news source is increasing with time. We offer four explanations of the decreased popularity of Facebook's news: information overload, exposure to incidental news, users' selective exposure and different aims of using Facebook, and conflict between media agendas and users' interests. Some theoretical and practical significance of the results has been discussed as well.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

The study aims to reveal the differences in the factors influencing portal news and news site application usages on smartphones in regard to political discussion networks, news use across multiple media platforms and news genre consumption. The results demonstrate that those factors affected both types of application usages in a different manner when controlling for demographics. The more participants conversed politics with homogeneous networks, the more they used portal news on smartphones. Conversely, the more political discussion with heterogeneous networks, the more they used news site application on smartphones. The more frequently Internet and mobile phone were employed for news source and the more soft news genre was consumed, the more the portal news application was used. However, the more frequently traditional and social media were employed for news source and the more hard news consumed, the more news site application was used. The findings imply that portal news application users may increase their likelihood of soft news consumption using Internet and mobile phones for political discussion with close social relations, while news site application users may increase their likelihood of hard news consumption using traditional and social media for political discussion with distant social relations.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.337-351
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• 2022

소셜미디어의 전면적인 보급과 빠른 발전에 따라 소셜미디어 정보전파의 탈중심화 추세가 나날이 뚜렷해지고 있으며 수용자들이 소셜미디어 정보를 이용한 시간의 세분화가 뚜렷하게 진행되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 기존연구들을 바탕으로 소셜미디어의 가짜뉴스에 대한 태도, 사회자본, 위험인식 및 판별의도 간의 미치는 영향 관계를 연구하고자 하다. 이에 따른 연구모델은 관련한 연구가설을 제시하고 설문지를 구성하여 총 500건의 유효설문을 수집하였다. 자료 분석하기 위해 SPSS 26.0 프로그램과 AMOS 24.0 프로그램을 사용하였다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 소셜미디어의 가짜뉴스 판별의도에 대한 이용자들의 태도가 적극적일수록 인터넷 정보의 진위성을 판별하기 위해 다양한 방식이나 도구를 활용하려 한다. 둘째, 소셜미디어 가짜뉴스에 대한 이용자의 태도가 적극적일수록 소셜미디어 가짜뉴스가 자신의 신체, 심리, 재무 등에 미치는 잠재적 위협을 인식할 수 있다. 아울러 자신의 위험인식을 높이고 소셜미디어 가짜뉴스에 대한 반펼의도가 높아진다. 셋째, 중국 이용자가 가진 사회자본이 풍부할수록 정보 소양이 강해지기 때문에 소셜미디어 가짜뉴스에 대한 판별의도도 강해진다. 넷째, 중국 이용자 가진 사회자본의 가치가 높을수록 가짜뉴스에 받은 피해를 더 크게 볼 수 있다고 판단하며, 자신의 이익을 보호하기 위해 가짜뉴스에 대한 위험의식이 높아진다. 다섯째, 중국 이용자가 소셜미디어에 의심한 정보를 인식하고 상응한 조치를 시실한 것을 의미하다.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.65-82
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• 2020

This study examined information sharing and evaluation as determinants of the spread of fake news among Nigerian youths on social media using experience from COVID-19 pandemic. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and a Web-based questionnaire (Google Forms) was used to collect data for the study. The total responses of 278 were collected from the participants, which represents the unit of analysis. The finding of the study revealed that most Nigerian youths used Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Instagram to share information on COVID-19. However, only a few Nigerians used Linkedln and other types of social media to share information on COVID-19. It was also found that building a relationship with social media communities, enjoyment and risk taking, and political inclination influence the sharing behavior of Nigerian youths during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that social media handle/page found sharing of fake news on COVID-19 especially on the treatment, vaccines numbers of cases and symptoms. The study concludes that there is a positive relationship between information evaluation and the spreading of fake news on COVID-19 among Nigerians. Information sharing and evaluation should be done with the utmost level of objectivity and sincerity.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.173-183
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• 2019

This study aims to utilize big data contents of news and social media for developing a corporate strategy of multinational enterprises and their global decision-making through the data mining technique, especially text mining. In this paper, the data of 2 news media (BBC and CNN) and 2 social media (Facebook and Twitter) were collected for the three global leading Korean companies (Samsung, Hyundai Motor Company, and LG) from April, 2018 to April, 2019. The findings of this paper have shown that traditional news media and also modern social media have become devastating tools to extract global trends or phenomena for businesses. Moreover, this presents that a company can adopt a two-track strategy through two different types of media by deriving the key issues or trends from news media channels and also grasping consumers' sentiments, preference or issues of interest such as battery or design from social media. In addition, analyzing the texts of those media and understanding the association rules greatly contribute to the comparison between two different types of media channels to see the difference. Lastly, this provides meaningful and valuable data empowered insights to find a future direction comprehensively and develop a global strategy for sustainability of business.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.309-318
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• 2017

본 연구는 소셜 미디어 정치 뉴스의 논조와 프레임 유형 및 특성을 분석한 것이다. 소셜 미디어 뉴스는 트위터나 페이스북 등 SNS를 기반으로 자유롭게 정보를 공유하고 누구나 기사를 작성하고 편집할 수 있는 특성으로 인해 기존 미디어가 따라올 수 없을 만큼 의견의 다양성을 실현시키고 있다. 이에 구체적으로 소셜 미디어 뉴스가 어떻게 기존 미디어와 차별적으로 뉴스를 형성하고 있는지, 어떠한 뉴스 프레임으로 여론을 형성하고 있는지 살펴보고자 국내 소셜 뉴스매체인 '위키트리'를 대상으로 '대통령선거' 키워드 검색을 통해 총 419건의 기사를 추출한 후 내용분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 소셜 미디어 정치 뉴스의 논조와 프레임 유형은 보도인물, 게재유형, 정보원, 주제범주, 현 정권에 대한 태도에 따라 유의미한 차이를 보였는데 심층성이 부족하고 연성화가 뚜렷해져 기존 미디어가 가지는 정치 뉴스의 한계를 여전히 벗어나지 못하고 있는 것으로 해석된다. 소셜 미디어 정치 뉴스의 논조는 개연적, 구체적이기 보다 당위적, 추상적인 것으로 나타났고 주로 감성, 전략, 일화 중심의 프레임을 사용하고 있는 것으로 나타났기 때문이다.