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 …

Abstract Microblogging is a “Mobile Web 2.0” service category that enables brief blog-like
postings from mobile terminals and PCs to the World Wide Web. To shed light on …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain how individuals form microblogging habits
and why they continue to use microblogs from the perspective of direction social networks …

This study draws on models of motivated news exposure and literature on affordances to
examine how devices (ie, PC or mobile) and paths to exposure (ie, news homepages …

Previous research has found that social networking applications such as microblogs can
develop gratification and addiction among users. Although it is generally believed that …

This study investigates news consumption on mobile devices with the goal of identifying
where mobile devices fit into people's media repertoires and how consumption patterns on …

Scholarly work argues that mobile technology facilitates serendipitous news consumption.
This article examines how users understand serendipity in mobile news consumption and …

Guided by the Uses and Gratifications approach and the concept of affordances, this study
sought to understand the phenomenon of news consumption on an emerging messaging …

A mixed methods research project combining quantitative online survey results with
semistructured interview data explored how a major metropolitan newspaper's digital …

Microblogging environments such as Twitter present a modality for interacting with
information characterized by exposure to information “streams”. In this work, we examine …