Social impacts in social media: An examination of perceived truthfulness and sharing of information

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Highlights:

• Social media display the combined opinion of users as collective opinion.

• We reveal the extent to which the crowd adopts collective opinion on social media.

• Collective opinion affected crowd’s truthfulness rating of health information.

• Collective opinion affected crowd’s decision to share health information.

• Social impacts took place for information perceived as true, debatable, and false.

摘要

•Social media display the combined opinion of users as collective opinion.•We reveal the extent to which the crowd adopts collective opinion on social media.•Collective opinion affected crowd’s truthfulness rating of health information.•Collective opinion affected crowd’s decision to share health information.•Social impacts took place for information perceived as true, debatable, and false.

论文关键词:Collective opinion,Social impact,Truthfulness,Information sharing,Social media

论文评审过程:Available online 23 October 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.08.009