Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure

<p dir="ltr">One might think that, compared to traditional media, social media sites allow people to choose more freely what to read and what to share, especially for politically oriented news. However, reading and sharing habits originate from deeply ingrained behaviors that might b...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Jisun An (10230800) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Daniele Quercia (3256848) (author), Meeyoung Cha (187126) (author), Krishna Gummadi (19489528) (author), Jon Crowcroft (7188773) (author)
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Daniele Quercia (3256848)
Meeyoung Cha (187126)
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Political science
Sociology
Information and computing sciences
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news sharing
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political diversity
social media
Twitter
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description <p dir="ltr">One might think that, compared to traditional media, social media sites allow people to choose more freely what to read and what to share, especially for politically oriented news. However, reading and sharing habits originate from deeply ingrained behaviors that might be hard to change. To test the extent to which this is true, we propose a Political News Sharing (PoNS) model that holistically captures four key aspects of social psychology: gratification, selective exposure, socialization, and trust & intimacy. Using real instances of political news sharing in Twitter, we study the predictive power of these features. As one might expect, news sharing heavily depends on what one likes and agrees with (selective exposure). Interestingly, it also depends on the credibility of a news source, i.e., whether the source is a social media friend or a news outlet (trust & intimacy) as well as on the informativeness or the enjoyment of the news article (gratification). Finally, a Twitter user tends to share articles matching his own political leaning but, at times, the user also shares politically opposing articles, if those match the leaning of his followers (socialization). Based on our PoNS model, we build a prototype of a news sharing application that promotes serendipitous political readings along our four dimensions.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: EPJ Data Science<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-014-0012-2" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-014-0012-2</a></p>
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spelling Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposureJisun An (10230800)Daniele Quercia (3256848)Meeyoung Cha (187126)Krishna Gummadi (19489528)Jon Crowcroft (7188773)Human societyPolitical scienceSociologyInformation and computing sciencesData management and data scienceHuman-centred computingnews sharingpolitical newspolitical diversitysocial mediaTwitter<p dir="ltr">One might think that, compared to traditional media, social media sites allow people to choose more freely what to read and what to share, especially for politically oriented news. However, reading and sharing habits originate from deeply ingrained behaviors that might be hard to change. To test the extent to which this is true, we propose a Political News Sharing (PoNS) model that holistically captures four key aspects of social psychology: gratification, selective exposure, socialization, and trust & intimacy. Using real instances of political news sharing in Twitter, we study the predictive power of these features. As one might expect, news sharing heavily depends on what one likes and agrees with (selective exposure). Interestingly, it also depends on the credibility of a news source, i.e., whether the source is a social media friend or a news outlet (trust & intimacy) as well as on the informativeness or the enjoyment of the news article (gratification). Finally, a Twitter user tends to share articles matching his own political leaning but, at times, the user also shares politically opposing articles, if those match the leaning of his followers (socialization). Based on our PoNS model, we build a prototype of a news sharing application that promotes serendipitous political readings along our four dimensions.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: EPJ Data Science<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-014-0012-2" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-014-0012-2</a></p>2014-09-25T06:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.1140/epjds/s13688-014-0012-2https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Sharing_political_news_the_balancing_act_of_intimacy_and_socialization_in_selective_exposure/26841469CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/268414692014-09-25T06:00:00Z
spellingShingle Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure
Jisun An (10230800)
Human society
Political science
Sociology
Information and computing sciences
Data management and data science
Human-centred computing
news sharing
political news
political diversity
social media
Twitter
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title Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure
title_full Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure
title_fullStr Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure
title_full_unstemmed Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure
title_short Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure
title_sort Sharing political news: the balancing act of intimacy and socialization in selective exposure
topic Human society
Political science
Sociology
Information and computing sciences
Data management and data science
Human-centred computing
news sharing
political news
political diversity
social media
Twitter