Social Recommendation, Source Credibility, and Recency Effects of News Cues in a Social Bookmarking Website

A 2 (number of diggs: a few, many) × 2 (source credibility: low, high) × 2 (recency: more recent, less recent) between-subjects experiment was conducted to explore how three news cues individually and interactively affected perception of credibility, newsworthiness, click likelihood, and sharing beh...

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Published inJournalism & mass communication quarterly Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 757 - 775
Main Author Xu, Qian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.12.2013
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Attitudes
Behavior
Communication
Credibility
Cues
Endorsements
Experiments
Heuristic
Heuristics
Information Processing
Intention
News
Perception
Perceptions
Professionals
Public Opinion
Social behaviour
Social bookmarking
Social Media
Social networks
Social research
Stimuli
Subject
Websites
social recommendation
recency
source credibility
news cues
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Summary:A 2 (number of diggs: a few, many) × 2 (source credibility: low, high) × 2 (recency: more recent, less recent) between-subjects experiment was conducted to explore how three news cues individually and interactively affected perception of credibility, newsworthiness, click likelihood, and sharing behavioral intentions toward the news feed on a social bookmarking website. The findings indicated that social recommendation in the form of number of diggs was the primary factor to influence perceived news credibility and click likelihood. The influence of source credibility was dependent upon the effect of other cues. There was also a cue-cumulation effect of source credibility and recency on perceived newsworthiness.
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ISSN:1077-6990
2161-430X
DOI:10.1177/1077699013503158