Why people share misinformation on social media? An integration of affordance and flow theories

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Publicado en:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications vol. 12, no. 1 (Dec 2025), p. 1129
Autor principal: Wu, Manli
Otros Autores: Wu, Tailai, Xiao, Yushan
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520 3 |a The widespread dissemination of misinformation on social media calls for an empirical investigation of why people share such content. By integrating affordance theory and flow theory, this study examines the underlying psychological mechanisms between social media affordances and misinformation sharing. With 533 valid questionnaires, the findings demonstrate that social media affordances (information accessibility, metavoicing and association) are positively associated with cognitive involvement and affective involvement, which then exert positive effects on users’ misinformation sharing. The results further reveal that emotional ability negatively moderates the relationship between affective involvement and misinformation sharing. Theoretically, our empirical findings extend prior studies by complementing the positive connotation of social media affordances and demonstrating that social media affordances can drive misinformation sharing through the mechanism of flow. Practically, the findings imply that attention should be paid to the design and management of social media to curtail misinformation sharing. 
653 |a Information seeking behavior 
653 |a Affect (Psychology) 
653 |a False information 
653 |a Cognitive ability 
653 |a Emotions 
653 |a Boundary conditions 
653 |a Pandemics 
653 |a Social networks 
653 |a Social media 
653 |a Participation 
653 |a Misinformation 
653 |a Dissemination 
653 |a Mass media 
653 |a Psychological mechanisms 
653 |a Theory 
653 |a Connotation 
653 |a Access 
653 |a Sharing 
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