The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
Internet social network communities: Risk taking, trust, and privacy concerns
Computers in Human Behavior
The ties that bind: Social network principles in online communities
Decision Support Systems
Microblogging after a major disaster in China: a case study of the 2010 Yushu earthquake
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Information credibility on twitter
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Tweeting is believing?: understanding microblog credibility perceptions
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Finding and assessing social media information sources in the context of journalism
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Since 2006 social media use has grown dramatically in China. Social media has become a stage for citizens to report and disseminate news and to vocalize viewpoints, at times competing with reports from highly curated official media sources. These competing news channels, oftentimes presenting contradictory information, raise questions about citizens' trust in these different media. This study explores the level of trust Chinese Internet users place on news from social media versus official media. We conducted a large-scale anonymous survey in China that revealed that official and citizen news attract different audience groups and each group uses different features to assess news trustworthiness. We present a model for predicting preference for news from citizen media. The results reveal features of social media that explain why some citizens trust it as a channel for news. The results also suggest that in highly regulated news environments, citizen media has the potential to become an alternative news channel where citizens can trust each other for information.