Why do people share news in social media?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6890 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 129-140

  Lee, Chei Sian ^a   Ma, Long ^a   Goh, Dion Hoe Lian ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

gratifications; motivations; news sharing; Social media

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; GRADUATE STUDENTS; GRATIFICATIONS; INFORMATIVENESS; NEWS SHARING; SOCIAL MEDIA; USES AND GRATIFICATIONS;

MOTIVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 80052400543     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23620-4_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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