What drives hyper-partisan news sharing: Exploring the role of source, style, and content

Xu, Weiai Wayne; Sang, Yoonmo; Kim, Christopher

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What drives hyper-partisan news sharing: Exploring the role of source, style, and content

dc.contributor.author	Xu, Weiai Wayne
dc.contributor.author	Sang, Yoonmo
dc.contributor.author	Kim, Christopher
dc.contributor.department	University of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.contributor.department	University of Canberra
dc.contributor.department	University of Canberra
dc.date	2023-09-24T06:39:51.000
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-26T09:16:34Z
dc.date.available	2021-05-11T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued	2020-01-01
dc.description.abstract	A growing number of hyper-partisan alternative media outlets have sprung up online to challenge mainstream journalism. However, research on news sharing in this particular media environment is lacking. Based on the virality of seventeen partisan outlets’ coverage of immigration and using the latest computational linguistic algorithm, the present study probes how hyper-partisan news sharing is related to source transparency, content styles, and moral framing. The study finds that the most shared articles reveal author names, but not necessarily other types of author information. The study uncovers a salient link between moral frames and virality. In particular, audiences are more sensitive to moral frames that emphasize authority/respect, fairness/reciprocity, and harm/care.
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2020.1761264
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/8364
dc.relation.ispartof	Digital Journalism
dc.relation.url	https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1124&context=communication_faculty_pubs&unstamped=1
dc.rights	UMass Amherst Open Access Policy
dc.source.issue	4
dc.source.issue	8
dc.source.status	published
dc.subject	news sharing
dc.subject	news diffusion
dc.subject	partisan media
dc.subject	Facebook
dc.subject	social media
dc.subject	moral framing
dc.subject	moral foundations theory
dc.title	What drives hyper-partisan news sharing: Exploring the role of source, style, and content
dc.type	article
dc.type	article
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digcom.contributor.author	Sang, Yoonmo
digcom.contributor.author	Kim, Christopher
digcom.date.embargo	2021-05-11T00:00:00-07:00
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