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Using interface cues in online health community boards to change impressions and encourage user contribution
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2011-05)Online health message boards have become popular, as users not only gain information from other users but also share their own experiences. However, as with most venues of user-generated content, there is need to constantly ... -
Interactivity as self-expression: a field experiment with customization and blogging
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2012-05)A paradigmatic quality of interactive interfaces is that they allow users to express themselves, thereby converting message receivers into communication sources. We define this quality as Source Interactivity [26, 29], and ... -
Open captioning as a means of communicating health information: The role of cognitive load in processing entertainment-education content
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-08-07)Despite considerable research on entertainment-education, the influence of cognition on viewer appreciation and learning remains unclear. A pretest-posttest laboratory experiment was conducted to examine the effects of ... -
Can online buddies and bandwagon cues enhance user participation in online health communities?
(Elsevier, 2014-08)Individuals are more likely to obtain information and support from online health communities than offer help to other users (Fox & Jones, 2009; Preece, Nonnecke, & Andrews, 2004). The current study attempts to resolve this ... -
Effects of fear appeals on communicating potential health risks of unregulated dietary supplements to college students
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-08-30)Background: Fear appeals are commonly used in health communication to reduce risk. It is not clear, however, whether familiarity with a health topic can lessen the threat intended. The use of unregulated dietary supplements ... -
Examining psychological effects of source cues and social plugins on a product review website
(Elsevier, 2015-08)This study examines the psychological effects of heuristic cues on a product review website to gain a better understanding of online agency. A between-participants experiment of 458 college students confirmed the formation ... -
Communicating art, virtually!: psychological effects of technological affordances in a virtual museum
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-05-27)Museums lean heavily on recent developments in communication technologies to create an authentic experience for online visitors of its galleries. This study examines whether three specific affordances of communication ... -
Factors influencing the perceived credibility of diet-nutrition information web sites
(Elsevier, 2016-05)This study investigated the factors that influence the perceived credibility of web sites providing diet and nutrition information. Undergirded by the dual-processing models (i.e., Elaboration Likelihood Model and Heuristic ... -
College students’ motivations for using podcasts
(National Association for Media Literacy Education, 2016-01-08)Despite potential benefits of podcasts for college education, little research has examined students’ psychological drives for using podcasts. To explore the relationship between the use of podcasts and college students’a ... -
Motivating contributions to online forums: can locus of control moderate the effects of interface cues?
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-09-30)In an effort to encourage users to participate rather than lurk, online health forums provide authority badges (e.g., guru) to frequent contributors and popularity indicators (e.g., number of views) to their postings. ... -
Theoretical Importance of Contingency in Human-Computer Interaction: Effects of Message Interactivity on User Engagement
(Sage Publications, 2014-05-22)A critical determinant of message interactivity is the presence of contingency, that is, the messages we receive are contingent upon the messages we send, leading to a threaded loop of interdependent messages. While this ... -
What drives you to check in on Facebook? Motivations, privacy concerns, and mobile phone involvement for location-based information sharing
(Elsevier, 2016-01)Given the popularity of checking in at a location via mobile phone, little research has examined the germane motivations tied to location check-in as a form of in-group electronic word-of-mouth and its relation to the ... -
A functional and structural diagnosis of online health communities sustainability: A focus on resource richness and site design features
(Elsevier, 2016-10)The reality of online communities’ under-contribution issues has often been clouded with theoretical rather than real-world insight. The present study aims to neutralize this disparity, through content analysis on 196 ... -
Time matters: framing antismoking messages using current smokers' preexisting perceptions of temporal distance to smoking-related health risks
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-01-17)This study examined the effects of temporal framing used in messages about the future likelihood of developing smoking-related diseases on intention to quit smoking. Based on construal level theory (CLT), a causal model ... -
It matters who shares and who reads: persuasive outcomes of location check-ins on Facebook
(Inderscience, 2018-02-10)Despite an emerging trend of location check-ins as a means of mobile communication amongst Facebook users, little attention has been devoted to the value of location check-ins as marketing potential. In particular, little ... -
The role of legal and moral norms to regulate the behavior of texting while driving
(Elsevier, 2018-01)Despite a nationwide lawful effort to regulate texting-while-driving behavior, little change has been reported. This study assessed the effect of current legal enforcement on attitudinal and behavioral responses toward ... -
Characterising social structural and linguistic behaviours of subgroup interactions: a case of online health communities for postpartum depression on Facebook
(Inderscience, 2020-07-10)Online health communities (OHCs) have become a major source of sharing knowledge and social support for people with health concerns. The present paper aimed to extend the previous understanding of community dynamics of two ... -
The use of legal and social sanctions as a norming influence on texting while driving
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-09-10)Laws banning texting while driving in the United States have not been highly successful in curbing the target behaviour. The aim of the current study was to explore the influence of normative campaign messages on texting ... -
The effects of open captions in a medical drama on the acquisition of medical terminology about chronic health conditions related to physical injury
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-08-14)Background: Despite previous efforts to improve health literacy through entertainment media, current practice seems to address only a few public health topics. Purpose: We examined the impact of supplementary open captions ... -
Content & character: Disability publications in the late 1990s
(Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2000)Disability publications fit with other types of alternative or dissident media in U.S. society because they advocate on behalf of a distinctive U.S. group, which has come together to form a political and social community. ...
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