Blog Post #2 Research Topic

 My research topic is; why and where do Facebook users access the news?
My sources are:

1. Incidental News Exposure on Facebook as a Social Experience: The Influence of Recommender and Media Cues on News Selection
 https://journals-sagepub-com.libproxy.dixie.edu/doi/full/10.1177/0093650218803529

 2. Audiences as Agents of Collective Memory – Implications for Press Criticism and Journalism Boundaries. https://journals-sagepub-com.libproxy.dixie.edu/doi/full/10.1177/10776990211017243

3. Protest News and Facebook Engagement: How the Hierarchy of Social Struggle Is Rebuilt on Social Media 10.1177/10776990211017243

4. Do anticipated Facebook discussions diminish the importance of argument quality? An experimental investigation of attitude formation in social media. 10.1080/15213269.2019.1572521

5. The Emergence of Surveillance Culture: The Relationships between Facebook Privacy Management, Online Government Surveillance, and Online Political Expression. 10.1080/08838151.2021.1897816

6. Like, Comment, or Share? Exploring the Effects of Local Television News Facebook Posts on News Engagement. 10.1080/08838151.2020.1851125

7. Selective exposure shapes the Facebook news diet. 10.1371/journal.pone.0229129

8. The New Personal Influence: How Our Facebook Friends Influence the News We Read. 10.1080/10584609.2017.1316329

9. Digital news on public libraries: Media mapping and thematic and consumption analysis based on Facebook interactions. 10.3145/epi.2021.ene.15

10. Reliance on Facebook for news and its influence on political engagement. 10.1371/journal.pone.0212263




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  1. DrewSeptember 14, 2021 at 6:45 PM

    Based on the sources I have found, it seems that most came from journals based on the subject of communication. This makes sense because Facebook is a platform where people communicate with others. I could possibly make one heading related to politics and how people's Facebook feeds are slanted politically, and maybe another related to how often people actually click on the links that are provided. Another heading could be based on how people respond to the news that they find.

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