Cognition or affect? - exploring information processing on facebook

Authors:
Ksenia Koroleva;Hanna Krasnova;Oliver Günther
Affiliations:
Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of Information Systems, Berlin, Germany;Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of Information Systems, Berlin, Germany;Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of Information Systems, Berlin, Germany
Venue:
SocInfo'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Social informatics
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Recognizing the increasing amount of information shared on Social Networking Sites (SNS), in this study we aim to explore the information processing strategies of users on Facebook. Specifically, we aim to investigate the impact of various factors on user attitudes towards the posts on their Newsfeed. To collect the data, we program a Facebook application that allows users to evaluate posts in real time. Applying Structural Equation Modeling to a sample of 857 observations we find that it is mostly the affective attitude that shapes user behavior on the network. This attitude, in turn, is mainly determined by the communication intensity between users, overriding comprehensibility of the post and almost neglecting post length and user posting frequency.