Why do people use news differently on SNSs? An investigation of the role of motivations, media repertoires, and technology cluster on citizens' news-related activities

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Highlights：

• We investigated the predictors of three news activities on SNSs.

• News reading, posting, and endorsing derive from different motivations.

• Having an internet-based news repertoire was a positive predictor of news activities on SNSs.

• Having a large mobile-technology cluster was only positively associated with news reading.

摘要

•We investigated the predictors of three news activities on SNSs.•News reading, posting, and endorsing derive from different motivations.•Having an internet-based news repertoire was a positive predictor of news activities on SNSs.•Having a large mobile-technology cluster was only positively associated with news reading.

论文关键词：Social networking sites (SNSs),News,Motivations,Media repertoire,Technology cluster

论文评审过程：Received 14 March 2015, Revised 4 August 2015, Accepted 7 August 2015, Available online 24 August 2015, Version of Record 24 August 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.08.006