Not just numbers: The role of social media metrics in online news evaluations

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Highlights：

• Social media metrics reduce media credibility effects on news evaluations.

• Social media metrics effects hold only when the media credibility is low.

• Personal relevance moderates media credibility and social media metrics effects.

摘要

•Social media metrics reduce media credibility effects on news evaluations.•Social media metrics effects hold only when the media credibility is low.•Personal relevance moderates media credibility and social media metrics effects.

论文关键词：Social media metrics,Media credibility,Multiple information sources,Online news,News evaluation

论文评审过程：Received 2 August 2016, Revised 3 June 2017, Accepted 13 June 2017, Available online 19 June 2017, Version of Record 11 July 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.06.022