Wednesday, December 14, 2011

How much news do students share on Facebook?

My research question was based on the profile of college students who use social media to obtain news, interact with news, and broadcast the news.  I found that a majority of the participants, 45%, never posted a link from a major news outlet onto any of their social media websites. Meanwhile, five people posted more than four times a week. Around 72% of the participants said they would rather read the news article itself than a Tweet or Facebook post about a news article. There were 27 participants that said they would rather read a Tweet or Facebook post about the news article. Additionally, 45% of the participants never posted any links to their social media profiles. 

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