Abstract
Micro-news are abbreviated summaries or teasers of news content that are often accompanied with links to longer articles. We investigated motivations and habits of micro-news consumption through mobile social media platforms and how these variables relate to continuation intention. We surveyed 250 U.S. adults and identified six motivations using a uses and gratifications approach: social utility, pass time, entertainment, local information-seeking, salient information-seeking, and financial information-seeking. We found that habits add significant explanatory power on top of motivation in explaining users’ continuance intention. Context stability of time and situation, but not location, was correlated with habit.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 101262 |
| Journal | Telematics and Informatics |
| Volume | 44 |
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| State | Published - Nov 2019 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Keywords
- Habit
- Micro-news
- Mobile
- Motivation
- News
- Social media