Title
Let's Hate Together: How People Share News in Messaging, Social, and Public Networks
Abstract
ABSTRACTThere are currently a wide variety of ways to share news with others: from sharing in a personal message, to sharing on a social network, to publicly posting. Through a survey with over one thousand people and an artifact analysis of 262 shared articles, we examine differences in motivations and frequency of sharing news on public, social and private platforms. We find that public sharing is more focused on spreading an ideology, while private sharing in messaging is dominated by stories inspired by the recipient's interests or context. The survey revealed three main groups of news sharing practices: those who shared to all channels (public, social, private), those who didn't share at all, and those who shared to private and social. The groups differed in their attitudes toward online discussion; those that shared the most were neutral and those that didn't share had negative attitudes about discussion online. We discuss sharing practices and implications for social systems that support sharing news.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3173574.3173634
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
News, Social Media, Sharing, Messaging, Diffusion
News sharing,Personal message,Internet privacy,Social media,Social network,Computer science,Ideology,Social system,Online discussion,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Danielle M. Lottridge1133.05
Frank R. Bentley254344.04