My news, your news, and our news
Self-presentational motivations and three levels of issue relevance in news sharing on social media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6443572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Ihm (0000-0001-7039-4162, Kwangwoon University, Republic of Korea), Eun-Mee Kim (0000-0003-4032-4731, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 4643-4666 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614448241237487 |
| OpenAlex | W4392750196 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
Research on news sharing has focused on the societal relevance of news as the core value of traditional journalism or the informational characteristics of viral news on social media. In contrast, this study reinterprets news-sharing behaviors as interpersonal communication of news sharers presenting themselves to their personal networks beyond the distribution of societally important information. Through analyzing survey responses from 463 news sharers and the actual news they shared on social media, results suggest that news sharers consider their relationship with their audience and the personal and audience relevance of news to present their ideal selves and please their audience. By expanding the traditional emphasis on the societal relevance and informational characteristics of news, this study develops a theoretical framework to understand news sharing as interpersonal communication. It also provides future directions to conceptualize issue relevance at different levels and capture changed news-sharing behaviors in the era of networked individualism
Advertising · Business · Interpersonal communication · Journalism · Media studies · News media · News values · Political science · Presentational and representational acting · Public relations · Relevance (law · Social media · Sociology · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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Knock, Knock . Who's There? The Imagined Audience
Selection and Transmission Processes for Information in the Emerging Media Environment
Word of mouth and interpersonal communication
News sharing in social media
From Newsworthiness to Shareworthiness
The reliability of a two-item scale
What the Metrics Say. The Softening of News on the Facebook Pages of Mainstream Media Outlets
Advancing a Radical Audience Turn in Journalism. Fundamental Dilemmas for Journalism Studies
Online News Sharing in the Face of Mixed Audiences
The Social News Gap
Attracting Views and Going Viral
The emotional responses of browsing Facebook
Self-Disclosure in Social Media
Networked
News Sharing in Social Media
Do tabloids poison the well of social media? Explaining democratically dysfunctional news sharing
The hidden side of news diffusion
Context collapse and privacy management
A Short History of Journalism for Journalists
Proximate or Primary Source? How Multiple Layers of News Sources on Social Media Predict News Influence
News consumption in an age of mobile media
Understanding the Audience Turn in Journalism
What is News
The Journalistic Gut Feeling
Checking, Sharing, Clicking and Linking
I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately
A self-presentational view of social phenomena
Measuring Tie Strength
When, Why, and How Controversy Causes Conversation
The Strength of Weak Ties
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |