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Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy
In the present era of information technology, people tend to seek out news to enhance their current knowledge and awareness and to gain literacy. The reliance on seeking out news and relevant information has become very necessary to accomplish personal and organizational objectives. The present stud...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8965579/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35369257 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.862626 |
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description | In the present era of information technology, people tend to seek out news to enhance their current knowledge and awareness and to gain literacy. The reliance on seeking out news and relevant information has become very necessary to accomplish personal and organizational objectives. The present study has undertaken an inquiry to investigate the impact of social media news overload on news avoidance and news filtering with the mediating and moderating mechanisms of the need for news and media literacy, respectively. For this purpose, data were obtained from 358 Chinese social media users through the aid of survey forms. The data obtained were then analyzed through Smart-PLS software. The statistical technique used for analysis is structural equation modeling (SEM) to determine the validity of the proposed hypotheses. The results of the study indicated that social media news overload has a significant effect on news avoidance, the need for news, and news filtering behavior. It was also observed that the need for news had a significant impact on news avoidance. In addition to this, it was also revealed that the need for news significantly mediated the relationship between social media news overload and news avoidance; however, it did not mediate the relationship between social media news overload and news filtering. Lastly, it was identified that media literacy significantly moderated the relationship between the need for news and news avoidance and it did not moderate the relationship between the need for news and news filtering behavior. This study has made important theoretical contributions by advancing the current literature in terms of the empirical evidence that indicates a significant relationship between social media news overload, news avoidance, and news filtering. Practically, this study contributed by emphasizing the need to encourage and train people to use strategies to seek relevant news in a vast repository of information available through information technology. |
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spelling | pubmed-89655792022-03-31 Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy Tian, Qiuxia Front Psychol Psychology In the present era of information technology, people tend to seek out news to enhance their current knowledge and awareness and to gain literacy. The reliance on seeking out news and relevant information has become very necessary to accomplish personal and organizational objectives. The present study has undertaken an inquiry to investigate the impact of social media news overload on news avoidance and news filtering with the mediating and moderating mechanisms of the need for news and media literacy, respectively. For this purpose, data were obtained from 358 Chinese social media users through the aid of survey forms. The data obtained were then analyzed through Smart-PLS software. The statistical technique used for analysis is structural equation modeling (SEM) to determine the validity of the proposed hypotheses. The results of the study indicated that social media news overload has a significant effect on news avoidance, the need for news, and news filtering behavior. It was also observed that the need for news had a significant impact on news avoidance. In addition to this, it was also revealed that the need for news significantly mediated the relationship between social media news overload and news avoidance; however, it did not mediate the relationship between social media news overload and news filtering. Lastly, it was identified that media literacy significantly moderated the relationship between the need for news and news avoidance and it did not moderate the relationship between the need for news and news filtering behavior. This study has made important theoretical contributions by advancing the current literature in terms of the empirical evidence that indicates a significant relationship between social media news overload, news avoidance, and news filtering. Practically, this study contributed by emphasizing the need to encourage and train people to use strategies to seek relevant news in a vast repository of information available through information technology. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8965579/ /pubmed/35369257 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.862626 Text en Copyright © 2022 Tian. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Tian, Qiuxia Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy |
title | Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy |
title_full | Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy |
title_fullStr | Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy |
title_short | Impact of Social Media News Overload on Social Media News Avoidance and Filtering: Moderating Effect of Media Literacy |
title_sort | impact of social media news overload on social media news avoidance and filtering: moderating effect of media literacy |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8965579/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35369257 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.862626 |
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