Does Too Much News on Social Media Discourage News Seeking? Mediating Role of News Efficacy Between Perceived News Overload and News Avoidance on Social Media
Drawing upon Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, this study conceptualizes “social media news efficacy” and examines how news efficacy connects perceived news overload on social media to news avoidance and social filtering. Findings from a two-wave panel survey of South Korean adults show that news over...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119872956 |