Does micro-blogging make us "shallow"? Sharing information online interferes with information comprehension

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue , 2016, Pages 210-214

  Jiang, Tonglin ^a   Hou, Yubo ^a   Wang, Qi ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive overload; Fragmentation in information communication (FIC); Information comprehension; Micro blogging; Sharing information; Weibo

Indexed keywords

BLOGS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COGNITIVE OVERLOAD; INFORMATION COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION COMPREHENSION; MICRO BLOGGING; SHARING INFORMATION; WEIBO;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MEDITATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 84958151634     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.008     Document Type: Article

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