Health information seeking in the Web 2.0 age: Trust in social media, uncertainty reduction, and self-disclosure
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Geo-location is an antecedent of trust in social media platforms, indicating that cultural differences play a role in influencing trust in social media.
“Three studies found geo-location to be an antecedent of trust in social media platforms [66,79,95], indicating that cultural diferences play a role in infuencing trust in social media.”
From What Do We Mean When We Talk about Trust in Social Media? A Systematic Review (2023) · cites this paper as [66]
Trust in information on social media and trust in the platforms themselves positively influence people's intention to share information, news, and opinions on social media.
“All the studies in our corpus suggest that trust in the information on social media [10,56,65,68] and trust in the platforms themselves [30,59,66,70] positively infuence people's intention to share information, news, and opinions on social media [122].”
From What Do We Mean When We Talk about Trust in Social Media? A Systematic Review (2023) · cites this paper as [66]
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- Authors
- Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., Song, H., & Omori, K.
- Affiliations
- City University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (US)
- St. Cloud State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lin, Wan-Ying
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-03
- Volume
- 56
- Pages
- 289-294
- ISSN
- 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2496150059
- Cited by
- 185
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 4
- FWCI
- 14.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2016-08-01)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Computers in Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PolyU Institutional Research Archive (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- City University of Hong Kong (9610224)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Health › Social Media in Health Education
- Keywords
- online health information seeking, self-disclosure, trust in social media, uncertainty reduction, Web 2.0, youth, peer disclosure, cross-cultural comparison, Hong Kong, South Korea, United States
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