Jonathan J H Zhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 282858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan J H Zhu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan J H |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhu |
| SIGNATURE | ZHU J J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6173-6941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 318 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
How journalism researchers navigate the AI hype
As AI becomes increasingly integrated into news production, research on its implications for journalism abounds. However, how these studies normatively judge and provide interventions, which is crucial for journalism researchers and practitioners to progress in the discipline, largely remains unexplored. To fill this gap, extending the dichotomy between administrative and critical research orientations proposed by Lazarsfeld [(1941). Remarks on a…
Conceptualization, operationalization, and performance of longitudinal studies in communication research
We report a systematic review of longitudinal studies published in SSCI-Communication journals over the 50 years, focusing on how time is conceived, measured, and analyzed as a scientific concept. To facilitate the review, we devised two novel classification schemes to distinguish between longitudinal and non-longitudinal studies and to measure how time is treated. We manually coded a random sample of 1,080 research articles, supplemented with co…
Digital media use as social practice
Computational communication research (CCR)
Computational communication research (CCR) has emerged as an early and active subfield within computational social science, offering novel methodological approaches to address classical and emerging questions in communication research. This paper reviews the evolution and methodological developments in CCR in both the international research community and Chinese mainland, emphasizing the role of computational methods such as user analytics, conte…
Is communication a dependent or involuted discipline? A citation analysis of communication publications from 2010 to 2020
Communication research has been one of the fastest-growing disciplines across the social sciences over the last two decades in terms of the numbers of Social Science Citation Indexed journals and articles. However, whether Communication is an independent discipline remains debated. Of various criticisms, one extreme considers Communication too dependent on other disciplines, whereas the other regards Communication as too inward-looking. In the cu…
The effect of affordance on deliberation when retweeting
Competition, Cooperation, and Coexistence
The public agenda is an ecosystem in which public issues interact and compete to gain public attention. Whether this ecosystem is primarily competitive or cooperative is an unsettled question in the literature on agenda-setting. This study employs an ecological approach to explicate interissue relationships. It quantifies the nature and evolution of the issue ecosystem and examines the roles of the value orientations of issues and of individuals’…
Will Time Matter with Cognitive Load and Retention in Online News Consumption
The production and consumption of online news are usually under a bursty temporal pattern. However, little is known about the psychological and cognitive impacts of such bursty consumption of online news. The study employs a 2 (filled-interval length) × 2 (empty-interval length) × 2 (empty-interval burstiness) mixed design experiment to examine how temporal characteristics in online news consumption influence audiences’ cognition and retention. S…
Predicting reposting latency of news content in social media
Seeking anonymity on the Internet
The Onion Router (Tor) network is one of the most prominent technologies for accessing online resources while preserving anonymity. Effectively employing the technology is not a trivial process and involves the following steps: (1) motivated by needs, (2) becoming aware of and learning the technology, and (3) realizing desired purposes by usage. Using country-level panel data, this study examines the knowledge accumulation process through which m…
Staying, switching, and multiplatforming of user-generated content activities
Purpose User-generated content (UGC) refers to semantic and behavioral traces created by users on various social media platforms. While several waves of platforms have come and gone, the long-term sustainability of UGC activities has become a critical question that bears significance for theoretical understanding and social media practices. Design/methodology/approach Based on a large and lengthy dataset of both blogging and microblogging activit…
Jumping over the network threshold of information diffusion
Purpose Social influence plays a crucial role in determining the size of information diffusion. Drawing on threshold models, we reformulate the nonlinear threshold hypothesis of social influence. Design/methodology/approach We test the threshold hypothesis of social influence with a large dataset of information diffusion on social media. Findings There exists a bell-shaped relationship between social influence and diffusion size. However, the lar…
From Filled to Empty Time Intervals
Ordinary users fill some intervals on the time continuum by engaging in an online behavior and leave other intervals empty by disengaging from the behavior. Existing time-based measurements of online behaviors exclusively focus on characterizing filled time intervals and completely ignore the information embedded in empty time intervals. Empty time intervals, referring to time gaps between consecutive behaviors, carry important information on how…
Mobile Phone Use as Sequential Processes
Mobile phone use is an unfolding process by nature. In this study, it is explicated as two sequential processes: mobile sessions composed of an uninterrupted set of behaviors and mobile trajectories composed of mobile sessions and mobile-off time. A data set of a five-month behavioral logfile of mobile application use by approximately 2,500 users in Hong Kong is used. Mobile sessions are constructed and mined to uncover sequential characteristics…
How to measure sessions of mobile phone use? Quantification, evaluation, and applications
Research on mobile phone use often starts with the question of how much time users spend using their phones. The question involves an equal-length measure that captures the duration of mobile phone use but does not tackle the other temporal characteristics of user behavior, such as frequency, timing, and sequence. In this study, we propose a variable-length measure called “session” to uncover the unmeasured temporal characteristics. We use an ope…
Predicting Internet Non-Users' Adoption Intention and Adoption Behavior
A conceptual framework based on theory of planned behavior is developed to examine the impacts of social and psychological variables on Internet non-users' adoption intention and adoption behavior. A two-wave revolving panel design is adopted in the study based on the data collected from a longitudinal telephone survey conducted in Hong Kong. The study finds incongruence between individuals' attitude toward the Internet and adoption behavior and …
Mapping the landscape of Internet Studies
What does ‘Internet studies’ entail as a field of social science research? We aim to answer the question by mapping research themes, theorization, and methodology of Internet studies based on 27,000+ articles published in Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index journals over the last 10 years. In analyzing the articles, we adopt a ‘bottom-up’ approach – classifying keywords of the Internet studies without any a priori …
A game of win-win or win-lose? Revisiting the internet’s influence on sociability and use of traditional media
This study examines the influence of internet adoption and internet usage on sociability and use of traditional media. With empirical data collected in Hong Kong between 2003 and 2005, it confirms that adoption and usage are two distinct processes, with different social impacts. It is found that, on average, internet users spend significantly less time on traditional media than nonusers, while both groups spend the same amount of time on social a…
A Random Digit Search (RDS) Method for Sampling of Blogs and Other User-Generated Content
Blogs are arguably the most popular genre of user-generated content (UGC), which make blogs a gold mine for social science research. However, existing research on blogs has suffered from nonprobability samples collected either manually or by computerized crawling based on random walks method. The current article presents a probability sampling method for blogs, called random digit search (RDS), that is modified from the popular ‘‘random digit dia…
Information Accessibility, User Sophistication, and Source Credibility
The Internet has penetrated China at a rapid rate. However, there exist a wide range of constraining forces, such as governmental control, inadequate infrastructure, economic affordability, cultural perceptions, and language barriers. This paper tests the impact of access to the Internet and other sources of information, perceived credibility of the Internet and conventional media, and cognitive sophistication of Chinese audiences on the choice o…
Diffusion, Use and Impact of the Internet in Hong Kong
Hong Kong appears to be a dream venue for the Internet as a mass medium: There are a well-developed telecommunications infrastructure, a population with both financial resources and bilingual (Chinese and English) abilities, and a legal environment in which there is virtually no government regulation of content. However, recent experience with the slow adoption of other new media in Hong Kong, including cable TV and interactive TV, has sounded a …
Mapping Film Piracy in China
This article examines one of the most crucial yet often-overlooked links in global film processes: piracy. It does so within the context of a changing digital media environment that calls for a reassessment of key dimensions: networks, globalization, technology, space and the state. More specifically, it focuses on the operation of film piracy networks in Greater China that includes the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. By zooming in on 'Greater Ch…
The ecology of online newspapers
This article examines the development of online newspapers in China through a ‘social environment’ framework and finds several adverse factors in policies, regulations, economic structure, business conventions and telecommunications infrastructure. Through a ‘virtual community’ framework, it analyzes the operation and content of those newspapers and finds that they are still in a primitive stage of ‘virtual communities’. The article’s contributio…
Individual, Organizational, and Societal Influences on Media Role Perceptions
This article reports a secondary analysis comparing media role perceptions among journalists in China, Taiwan, and the United States, based on three recent nationwide surveys in these societies. By comparing the goodness-of-fit of a series of loglinear models, we have found that the societal factor has the strongest impact on journalists' views about media roles, the organizational factor has a significant but weak impact, and the individual fact…
I don't know’ in public opinion surveys in China
Why do some people say ‘I don't know’, ‘I have no opinion’, or simply refuse to say anything in a public opinion survey? The Western literature on public opinion research suggests two major types of causal factors for the non‐response: the respondent's individual characteristics (e.g. age, education, and occupation), and the survey's contextual characteristics (e.g. the length of the survey, the nature of the question, and the setting of the inte…
Capacity, Diversity, and Volatility of the Public Agenda
This study examined three intertwined hypotheses about long-term trends in the American public's issue agenda: increases in (1) agenda capacity, (2) agenda diversity, and (3) issue volatility. These hypotheses were tested with aggregate time series data covering 40 years of Gallup Poll Most Important Problem questions. The first two hypotheses also were replicated with cross-sectional data at the individual level consisting of 15,000 cases from t…
Individual, Organizational, and Societal Influences on Media Role Perceptions
This article reports a secondary analysis comparing media role perceptions among journalists in China, Taiwan, and the United States, based on three recent nationwide surveys in these societies. By comparing the goodness-of-fit of a series of loglinear models, we have found that the societal factor has the strongest impact on journalists' views about media roles, the organizational factor has a significant but weak impact, and the individual fact…
Issue Competition and Attention Distraction
Classic agenda-setting studies implied a zero-sum process, in which issues compete for media and public attention. Recent time series analyses on single issues have disregarded this central assumption. Evidence from a variety of sources was cited to illustrate that agenda-setting is a zero-sum game, due to the limited carrying capacity of the public agenda. A mathematical model was proposed to incorporate the strengths of both the classic approac…
Do Televised Debates Affect Image Perception More Than Issue Knowledge? A Study of the First 1992 Presidential Debate
Journal Article Do Televised Debates Affect Image Perception More Than Issue Knowledge? A Study of the First 1992 Presidential Debate Get access Jian-Hua Zhu, Jian-Hua Zhu 1Jian-Hua Zhu is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Connecticut.Ronald Milavsky is a professor.Rahul Biswas is a doctoral student in communication at the University of Kentucky, Lexington Search for other works by this author…
Mapping Film Piracy in China
This article examines one of the most crucial yet often-overlooked links in global film processes: piracy. It does so within the context of a changing digital media environment that calls for a reassessment of key dimensions: networks, globalization, technology, space and the state. More specifically, it focuses on the operation of film piracy networks in Greater China that includes the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. By zooming in on 'Greater Ch…
Mapping the landscape of Internet Studies
What does ‘Internet studies’ entail as a field of social science research? We aim to answer the question by mapping research themes, theorization, and methodology of Internet studies based on 27,000+ articles published in Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index journals over the last 10 years. In analyzing the articles, we adopt a ‘bottom-up’ approach – classifying keywords of the Internet studies without any a priori …
Information Accessibility, User Sophistication, and Source Credibility
The Internet has penetrated China at a rapid rate. However, there exist a wide range of constraining forces, such as governmental control, inadequate infrastructure, economic affordability, cultural perceptions, and language barriers. This paper tests the impact of access to the Internet and other sources of information, perceived credibility of the Internet and conventional media, and cognitive sophistication of Chinese audiences on the choice o…
I don't know’ in public opinion surveys in China
Why do some people say ‘I don't know’, ‘I have no opinion’, or simply refuse to say anything in a public opinion survey? The Western literature on public opinion research suggests two major types of causal factors for the non‐response: the respondent's individual characteristics (e.g. age, education, and occupation), and the survey's contextual characteristics (e.g. the length of the survey, the nature of the question, and the setting of the inte…
From Discontent to Protest
Based on a secondary analysis of a survey involving more than 2,500 urban working residents in China, this study tests several individual-level causes of protest behavior suggested by the research on protest in the West. The timing of the survey, just three months before the 1989 massive upheaval in China, makes the study especially valuable. Results from path analysis show that age, education, and Communist Party membership have both direct and …
Newspaper coverage and public opinion in Hong Kong
Based on the psychological model of media priming, we examine the potentially strong link between news content and public opinion about Governor Patten's democratization plan for Hong Kong. Similar to previous priming studies, we hypothesized that an increase in the amount of media coverage of Patten's political reform plan would cause the public to assign more weight to the issue when evaluating the governor's overall performance. To validate th…
Mobile Phone Use as Sequential Processes
Mobile phone use is an unfolding process by nature. In this study, it is explicated as two sequential processes: mobile sessions composed of an uninterrupted set of behaviors and mobile trajectories composed of mobile sessions and mobile-off time. A data set of a five-month behavioral logfile of mobile application use by approximately 2,500 users in Hong Kong is used. Mobile sessions are constructed and mined to uncover sequential characteristics…
Public Political Consciousness in China
Research Article| October 01 1990 Public Political Consciousness in China: An Empirical Profile Jianhua Zhu, Jianhua Zhu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Xinshu Zhao, Xinshu Zhao Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Hairong Li Hairong Li Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1990) 30 (10): 992–1006. https://doi.org/10.23…
How to measure sessions of mobile phone use? Quantification, evaluation, and applications
Research on mobile phone use often starts with the question of how much time users spend using their phones. The question involves an equal-length measure that captures the duration of mobile phone use but does not tackle the other temporal characteristics of user behavior, such as frequency, timing, and sequence. In this study, we propose a variable-length measure called “session” to uncover the unmeasured temporal characteristics. We use an ope…
A Random Digit Search (RDS) Method for Sampling of Blogs and Other User-Generated Content
Blogs are arguably the most popular genre of user-generated content (UGC), which make blogs a gold mine for social science research. However, existing research on blogs has suffered from nonprobability samples collected either manually or by computerized crawling based on random walks method. The current article presents a probability sampling method for blogs, called random digit search (RDS), that is modified from the popular ‘‘random digit dia…
Diffusion, Use and Impact of the Internet in Hong Kong
Hong Kong appears to be a dream venue for the Internet as a mass medium: There are a well-developed telecommunications infrastructure, a population with both financial resources and bilingual (Chinese and English) abilities, and a legal environment in which there is virtually no government regulation of content. However, recent experience with the slow adoption of other new media in Hong Kong, including cable TV and interactive TV, has sounded a …
A game of win-win or win-lose? Revisiting the internet’s influence on sociability and use of traditional media
This study examines the influence of internet adoption and internet usage on sociability and use of traditional media. With empirical data collected in Hong Kong between 2003 and 2005, it confirms that adoption and usage are two distinct processes, with different social impacts. It is found that, on average, internet users spend significantly less time on traditional media than nonusers, while both groups spend the same amount of time on social a…
Seeking anonymity on the Internet
The Onion Router (Tor) network is one of the most prominent technologies for accessing online resources while preserving anonymity. Effectively employing the technology is not a trivial process and involves the following steps: (1) motivated by needs, (2) becoming aware of and learning the technology, and (3) realizing desired purposes by usage. Using country-level panel data, this study examines the knowledge accumulation process through which m…
Staying, switching, and multiplatforming of user-generated content activities
Purpose User-generated content (UGC) refers to semantic and behavioral traces created by users on various social media platforms. While several waves of platforms have come and gone, the long-term sustainability of UGC activities has become a critical question that bears significance for theoretical understanding and social media practices. Design/methodology/approach Based on a large and lengthy dataset of both blogging and microblogging activit…
From Filled to Empty Time Intervals
Ordinary users fill some intervals on the time continuum by engaging in an online behavior and leave other intervals empty by disengaging from the behavior. Existing time-based measurements of online behaviors exclusively focus on characterizing filled time intervals and completely ignore the information embedded in empty time intervals. Empty time intervals, referring to time gaps between consecutive behaviors, carry important information on how…
The ecology of online newspapers
This article examines the development of online newspapers in China through a ‘social environment’ framework and finds several adverse factors in policies, regulations, economic structure, business conventions and telecommunications infrastructure. Through a ‘virtual community’ framework, it analyzes the operation and content of those newspapers and finds that they are still in a primitive stage of ‘virtual communities’. The article’s contributio…
Notes on recent dissertations
Public Political Consciousness in China
Research Article| October 01 1990 Public Political Consciousness in China: An Empirical Profile Jianhua Zhu, Jianhua Zhu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Xinshu Zhao, Xinshu Zhao Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Hairong Li Hairong Li Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1990) 30 (10): 992–1006. https://doi.org/10.23…
Issue Competition and Attention Distraction
Classic agenda-setting studies implied a zero-sum process, in which issues compete for media and public attention. Recent time series analyses on single issues have disregarded this central assumption. Evidence from a variety of sources was cited to illustrate that agenda-setting is a zero-sum game, due to the limited carrying capacity of the public agenda. A mathematical model was proposed to incorporate the strengths of both the classic approac…
From Discontent to Protest
Based on a secondary analysis of a survey involving more than 2,500 urban working residents in China, this study tests several individual-level causes of protest behavior suggested by the research on protest in the West. The timing of the survey, just three months before the 1989 massive upheaval in China, makes the study especially valuable. Results from path analysis show that age, education, and Communist Party membership have both direct and …
Do Televised Debates Affect Image Perception More Than Issue Knowledge? A Study of the First 1992 Presidential Debate
Journal Article Do Televised Debates Affect Image Perception More Than Issue Knowledge? A Study of the First 1992 Presidential Debate Get access Jian-Hua Zhu, Jian-Hua Zhu 1Jian-Hua Zhu is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Connecticut.Ronald Milavsky is a professor.Rahul Biswas is a doctoral student in communication at the University of Kentucky, Lexington Search for other works by this author…
Notes on recent dissertations
Capacity, Diversity, and Volatility of the Public Agenda
This study examined three intertwined hypotheses about long-term trends in the American public's issue agenda: increases in (1) agenda capacity, (2) agenda diversity, and (3) issue volatility. These hypotheses were tested with aggregate time series data covering 40 years of Gallup Poll Most Important Problem questions. The first two hypotheses also were replicated with cross-sectional data at the individual level consisting of 15,000 cases from t…
I don't know’ in public opinion surveys in China
Why do some people say ‘I don't know’, ‘I have no opinion’, or simply refuse to say anything in a public opinion survey? The Western literature on public opinion research suggests two major types of causal factors for the non‐response: the respondent's individual characteristics (e.g. age, education, and occupation), and the survey's contextual characteristics (e.g. the length of the survey, the nature of the question, and the setting of the inte…
Newspaper coverage and public opinion in Hong Kong
Based on the psychological model of media priming, we examine the potentially strong link between news content and public opinion about Governor Patten's democratization plan for Hong Kong. Similar to previous priming studies, we hypothesized that an increase in the amount of media coverage of Patten's political reform plan would cause the public to assign more weight to the issue when evaluating the governor's overall performance. To validate th…
Individual, Organizational, and Societal Influences on Media Role Perceptions
This article reports a secondary analysis comparing media role perceptions among journalists in China, Taiwan, and the United States, based on three recent nationwide surveys in these societies. By comparing the goodness-of-fit of a series of loglinear models, we have found that the societal factor has the strongest impact on journalists' views about media roles, the organizational factor has a significant but weak impact, and the individual fact…
The ecology of online newspapers
This article examines the development of online newspapers in China through a ‘social environment’ framework and finds several adverse factors in policies, regulations, economic structure, business conventions and telecommunications infrastructure. Through a ‘virtual community’ framework, it analyzes the operation and content of those newspapers and finds that they are still in a primitive stage of ‘virtual communities’. The article’s contributio…
Mapping Film Piracy in China
This article examines one of the most crucial yet often-overlooked links in global film processes: piracy. It does so within the context of a changing digital media environment that calls for a reassessment of key dimensions: networks, globalization, technology, space and the state. More specifically, it focuses on the operation of film piracy networks in Greater China that includes the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. By zooming in on 'Greater Ch…
Information Accessibility, User Sophistication, and Source Credibility
The Internet has penetrated China at a rapid rate. However, there exist a wide range of constraining forces, such as governmental control, inadequate infrastructure, economic affordability, cultural perceptions, and language barriers. This paper tests the impact of access to the Internet and other sources of information, perceived credibility of the Internet and conventional media, and cognitive sophistication of Chinese audiences on the choice o…
Diffusion, Use and Impact of the Internet in Hong Kong
Hong Kong appears to be a dream venue for the Internet as a mass medium: There are a well-developed telecommunications infrastructure, a population with both financial resources and bilingual (Chinese and English) abilities, and a legal environment in which there is virtually no government regulation of content. However, recent experience with the slow adoption of other new media in Hong Kong, including cable TV and interactive TV, has sounded a …
A game of win-win or win-lose? Revisiting the internet’s influence on sociability and use of traditional media
This study examines the influence of internet adoption and internet usage on sociability and use of traditional media. With empirical data collected in Hong Kong between 2003 and 2005, it confirms that adoption and usage are two distinct processes, with different social impacts. It is found that, on average, internet users spend significantly less time on traditional media than nonusers, while both groups spend the same amount of time on social a…
A Random Digit Search (RDS) Method for Sampling of Blogs and Other User-Generated Content
Blogs are arguably the most popular genre of user-generated content (UGC), which make blogs a gold mine for social science research. However, existing research on blogs has suffered from nonprobability samples collected either manually or by computerized crawling based on random walks method. The current article presents a probability sampling method for blogs, called random digit search (RDS), that is modified from the popular ‘‘random digit dia…
Predicting Internet Non-Users' Adoption Intention and Adoption Behavior
A conceptual framework based on theory of planned behavior is developed to examine the impacts of social and psychological variables on Internet non-users' adoption intention and adoption behavior. A two-wave revolving panel design is adopted in the study based on the data collected from a longitudinal telephone survey conducted in Hong Kong. The study finds incongruence between individuals' attitude toward the Internet and adoption behavior and …
Mapping the landscape of Internet Studies
What does ‘Internet studies’ entail as a field of social science research? We aim to answer the question by mapping research themes, theorization, and methodology of Internet studies based on 27,000+ articles published in Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index journals over the last 10 years. In analyzing the articles, we adopt a ‘bottom-up’ approach – classifying keywords of the Internet studies without any a priori …
How to measure sessions of mobile phone use? Quantification, evaluation, and applications
Research on mobile phone use often starts with the question of how much time users spend using their phones. The question involves an equal-length measure that captures the duration of mobile phone use but does not tackle the other temporal characteristics of user behavior, such as frequency, timing, and sequence. In this study, we propose a variable-length measure called “session” to uncover the unmeasured temporal characteristics. We use an ope…
Mobile Phone Use as Sequential Processes
Mobile phone use is an unfolding process by nature. In this study, it is explicated as two sequential processes: mobile sessions composed of an uninterrupted set of behaviors and mobile trajectories composed of mobile sessions and mobile-off time. A data set of a five-month behavioral logfile of mobile application use by approximately 2,500 users in Hong Kong is used. Mobile sessions are constructed and mined to uncover sequential characteristics…
From Filled to Empty Time Intervals
Ordinary users fill some intervals on the time continuum by engaging in an online behavior and leave other intervals empty by disengaging from the behavior. Existing time-based measurements of online behaviors exclusively focus on characterizing filled time intervals and completely ignore the information embedded in empty time intervals. Empty time intervals, referring to time gaps between consecutive behaviors, carry important information on how…
Jumping over the network threshold of information diffusion
Purpose Social influence plays a crucial role in determining the size of information diffusion. Drawing on threshold models, we reformulate the nonlinear threshold hypothesis of social influence. Design/methodology/approach We test the threshold hypothesis of social influence with a large dataset of information diffusion on social media. Findings There exists a bell-shaped relationship between social influence and diffusion size. However, the lar…
Predicting reposting latency of news content in social media
Seeking anonymity on the Internet
The Onion Router (Tor) network is one of the most prominent technologies for accessing online resources while preserving anonymity. Effectively employing the technology is not a trivial process and involves the following steps: (1) motivated by needs, (2) becoming aware of and learning the technology, and (3) realizing desired purposes by usage. Using country-level panel data, this study examines the knowledge accumulation process through which m…
Staying, switching, and multiplatforming of user-generated content activities
Purpose User-generated content (UGC) refers to semantic and behavioral traces created by users on various social media platforms. While several waves of platforms have come and gone, the long-term sustainability of UGC activities has become a critical question that bears significance for theoretical understanding and social media practices. Design/methodology/approach Based on a large and lengthy dataset of both blogging and microblogging activit…
Will Time Matter with Cognitive Load and Retention in Online News Consumption
The production and consumption of online news are usually under a bursty temporal pattern. However, little is known about the psychological and cognitive impacts of such bursty consumption of online news. The study employs a 2 (filled-interval length) × 2 (empty-interval length) × 2 (empty-interval burstiness) mixed design experiment to examine how temporal characteristics in online news consumption influence audiences’ cognition and retention. S…
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