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What makes online news interesting? Personal and situational interest and the effect on behavioral intentions
Author(s) -
O'Brien Heather L.,
McKay Jocelyn
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301150
Subject(s) - curiosity , situational ethics , psychology , task (project management) , social psychology , internet privacy , computer science , engineering , systems engineering
We conducted a study in which participants interacted with human‐interest news stories in video, audio or text format. We gathered post‐task impressions of participants' interest in and curiosity about the stories, and their behavioral intentions to link to related content or recommend the stories to others. We explored the individual and situational dimensions of interest in participants' responses, and how these related to behavioral intentions. We discuss implications for information system and study design.