ArticleThe Journal of communication2015
Attracting Views and Going Viral: How Message Features and News-Sharing Channels Affect Health News Diffusion.
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- Belief-consistent information is most shared despite being the least surprising.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Examining thematic and emotional differences across Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube: The case of COVID-19 vaccine side effects.Computers in human behavior · 2023Article
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- Perceptions around COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy: A qualitative study in Kaski district, Western Nepal.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- What message features influence the intention to share misinformation about COVID-19 on social media? The role of efficacy and novelty.Computers in human behavior · 2023Article
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- Being the Gatekeeper: How Thinking about Sharing Affects Neural Encoding of Information.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2021Article
- Health news sharing is reflected in distributed reward-related brain activity.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
- Promoting users' intention to share online health articles on social media: The role of confirmation bias.Information processing & management · 2020Article
- Evaluation of Korean-Language COVID-19-Related Medical Information on YouTube: Cross-Sectional Infodemiology Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- Media content sharing as a value-based decision.Current opinion in psychology · 2020Review
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Abstract
This study examined how intrinsic as well as perceived message features affect the extent to which online health news stories prompt audience selections and social retransmissions, and how news-sharing channels (e-mail vs. social media) shape what goes viral. The study analyzed actual behavioral data on audience viewing and sharing of
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