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The increasing use of online news, particularly by young Americans, pointsto the importance of understanding what users learn from this form of news and whether features of online news encourage or discourage various types of learning. This experimental study demonstrates that online news that takes advantage of one of the key characteristics of the Web—the use of in-text hyperlinks—may actually discourage learning of the facts that make up many news stories. But this same linking structure appa

The present study examines if Facebooking can contribute to psychological well-being and if so, which aspects of Facebook use could play a significant role. Matching crawled data with self-reported data from mobile Facebook users, we found that more social interactions with Facebook friends and faster friends' reactions to a user's post contributed toFacebook user's perceived social support and ultimately alleviated loneliness. We also found that the association between frequency as well as spee

In the context of the 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea, this study examines the multifaceted effects of media use considering the current complex media environment. Analysis of a two-wave online panel survey found that traditional media use had a positive influence on MERS knowledge while social media use did not. However, knowledge did not facilitate preventive behaviors. In contrast, negative emotional responses due to media use stimulated desirable behavior

Multicommunicating via mobile phone during face-to-face encounters with family and friends was examined with data from an online survey of 432 adults in the US. Multicommunicating was positively associated with problematic mobile phone use and explained by attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and a social need to belong. Those with ADHD symptoms were more likely to engage in problematic mobile phone use and frequent multicommunicating. Strong need for social assurance, which

본 연구는 2015년 메르스 위기 중 두 차례에 걸쳐 동일한 응답자들을 대상으로 수집한 온라인 패널 서베이 자료를 이용해 개인의 위기관련 정보탐색 처리에 미치는 요인과 위험정보 탐색처리가 위험 방지행동에 긍정적 영향을 미치는지를 검증하였다. 또한 메르스 위기 상황에서 SNS를 통해 가족, 친구, 지인과 활발한 소통이 메르스 위기관련 정보의 탐색, 처리 그리고 방지행동에 어떤 조절 영향을 미치는지도 살펴보았다. 연구 결과 위기정보 탐색처리 모델은 한국의 메르스 위기상황에서 그 타당성이 검증되었으며, 특히 메르스 관련 정보의 적극적 탐색과 체계적 처리가 이후 메르스 방지 행동에 긍정적 영향을 미쳤다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이와 함께, SNS 이용량에 따라 나뉜 두 집단에서 메르스 관련 정보의 탐색과 처리에 미치는 요인과 그 결과에 유의미한 차이가 있음을 알 수 있었다. SNS 이용에 따른 조절효과는 주로 부정적 감정과 사회적 동기요인을 중심으로 드러났고, 연구결과는 메르스 위기 중 SN

ACCESSIBLE SUMMARY: Narrative therapy is a useful approach in the treatment of depression that allows that person to 're-author' his/her life stories by focusing on positive interpretations, and such focus on positive emotions is a crucial component of treatment for depression. This paper evaluates narrative therapy with an emotional approach (NTEA) as a therapeutic modality that could be used by nurses for persons with depression. A nurse-administered NTEA intervention for people with depressio

This article examines how everyday media use and interpersonal communication for health information could influence health behaviors beyond intervention or campaign contexts. The authors argue that interpersonal communication works as an independent information channel and mediates the relation between media channels and health behaviors. In addition, the authors investigate whether interpersonal communication differently influences the relation between media connections and health behaviors for

Social media increases opportunities to glimpse celebrities’ glamorous lifestyles and to interact with celebrities. This study examines how the use of social networking sites (SNSs) for celebrity-related information and interactions influences users’ life satisfaction. Data analysis demonstrates that celebrity-related SNS activities decrease users’ life satisfaction by increasing relative deprivation through comparison with celebrities. However, the comparison also leads to system justification,

Examining individuals’ TV and Internet involvement following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, this study demonstrates that involvement with disaster media renders positive and negative effects on viewers. Although TV involvement increases perceived stress, TV and Internet involvement predict perceived gains of social-relational resources (e.g., companionship and intimacy with friends and family) and social trust. Media involvement, in general, is also positively related to individuals’ willingness t

Scholars suggest that hostile media perception (HMP) and third-person perception (TPP) can motivate people to take political action to counteract the unwarranted influence of slanted media. Little research has been undertaken, however, regarding how HMP and TPP relate to political participation in partisan media settings in which news media hold specific partisan or ideological inclinations. This study explored HMP and TPP of partisan media and their associations with political participation in

This study examines the roles of ethnic identity, acculturative stress, and news media use in explaining Korean immigrants’ civic engagement. An online survey of 1,135 Korean immigrants revealed that a strong Korean identity facilitated their engagement in the U.S. Korean community. However, this coethnic civic engagement was not mirrored by a corresponding civic engagement in their host society. Acculturative stress influenced a particular pattern of news media use: Immigrant Koreans who felt a

Focusing on the new Super-Topics Platform (STP) of Weibo, this study examined microblog users' responses to the support seeking of early Covid-19 patients suffering the first outbreak in China. A total of 853 patients' support-seeking messages, along with 81,000 comments to 270 patients' help-requests, were crawled and analyzed. Results showed that content characteristics influenced endorsing, sharing, and commenting by users. Furthermore, the study identified three types of social support prese

This study examines when and where residential context and communicative factors help and hurt Asian Americans’ political participation both within and beyond coethnic boundaries. Using multilevel analyses, this paper found that living in ethnically homogeneous residential areas and using ethnic media increase Asian-related political awareness. However, these coethnic features in their communicative structure did not directly bridge Asian communities to the political participation. Instead, coet

본 연구는 SNS 이용자 936명을 대상으로 실시한 온라인 서베이 자료를 이용해 SNS 이용이 상향비교를 통해 상대적 박탈감, 경제지위 인식, 삶의 만족에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 살펴보았다. 연구결과에 따르면, SNS를 많이 이용하는 사람들은 SNS를 통해 자신보다 우월한 타인과의 비교, 즉 상향비교를 더 많이 경험하는 경향이 있었다. SNS를 통한 상향비교는 현재 자신의 경제상황에 대한 분노, 좌절 등의 부정적 감정경험을 동반하는 상대적 박탈감을 일으켰다. 또한, 상대적 박탈감은 한국사회에서 자신이 처한 경제상황을 실제보다 나쁘게 판단하게 만들어 삶의 질을 떨어뜨리는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 SNS를 통한 사회적 교류가 상향비교나 상대적 박탈감으로 이어지지 않을 경우, 삶의 만족도에 정적인 영향을 미치기도 해, SNS 이용이 주관적 복지에 미치는 영향이 다면적이라는 점을 보여주기도 했다. 끝으로, 위에 요약된 본 연구결과가 경제적 불균형과 그 영향이 사회적 화두로 등장한 우리 사회를