Friend Network as Gatekeeper: A Study of WeChat Users’ Consumption of Friend-Curated Contents
Friend Network as Gatekeeper: A Study of WeChat Users’ Consumption of Friend-Curated Contents
Social media enables users to publish, disseminate, and access information easily. The downside is that it has fewer gatekeepers of what content is allowed to enter public circulation than the traditional media. In this paper, we present preliminary empirical findings from WeChat, a popular messaging app of the Chinese, indicating …