Posting, commenting, and tagging: Effects of sharing news stories on Facebook

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 240-249

  Oeldorf Hirsch, Anne ^a   Sundar, S Shyam ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Broadcast level; Content sharing; Facebook; News sharing; Self as source; Social media

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

CONTENT SHARING; FACEBOOK; NEWS SHARING; SELF AS SOURCE; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84917708508     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.024     Document Type: Article

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