Asymmetric Consumptive News Feed Curation? Examining How Perceived News Feed Performance Influences Boosting and Limiting Curation on Facebook

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-12-19 DOI:10.1177/20563051241306382

Shuning Lu, Biying Wu-Ouyang, Hsuan-Ting Chen

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Abstract

This study examines how perceived news feed performance (i.e., perceived news feed quality and valence) shapes consumptive news feed curation, defined as a type of social media consumption behavior by which users inform algorithms about what they want to see in their news feeds. Results from a survey in the United States ( N = 1,525) show that both perceived quality and valence of news feed were associated with consumptive news feed curation on Facebook. However, an asymmetric pattern emerged in that perceived news feed performance was only related to boosting behavior but not limiting behavior. Furthermore, the level of news feed diversity moderated the identified associations above. We revealed that the associations between perceived news feed quality and boosting curation were statistically stronger when the news feed was more diverse; when the news feed was less diverse, perceived negativity of the news feed was positively related to limiting curation; when the news feed became diverse, perceived negativity was negatively related to boosting curation.

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本研究探讨了感知到的新闻源表现（即感知到的新闻源质量和价值）如何影响消费性新闻源策划，消费性新闻源策划被定义为一种社交媒体消费行为，用户通过这种行为告知算法他们想在自己的新闻源中看到什么。一项在美国进行的调查（1525 人）结果显示，新闻源的感知质量和价值都与 Facebook 上的消费性新闻源策划有关。然而，一个不对称的模式出现了，即感知到的新闻源性能只与促进行为有关，而与限制行为无关。此外，新闻源的多样性水平也调节了上述已确定的关联。我们发现，当新闻源更加多样化时，感知到的新闻源质量与促进性策划之间的关联在统计学上更强；当新闻源不那么多样化时，感知到的新闻源负面性与限制性策划正相关；当新闻源变得多样化时，感知到的负面性与促进性策划负相关。

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Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.