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Social media have been becoming one of the hottest topics in the recent years and various media incorporate social media to drive traffic and build customer relationships. This book chapter introduces a new concept—social media involvement—and applied it to our research. Social media involvement refers to the extent to which people indulge in social media. And then, by employing an audience survey in Northwest Ohio, we examined which demographic characteristics can predict social media involvement among college students and general population and compared and contrast the difference in social media content consumption behavior between college students and general population. In addition, we analyzed the media content topic preference in audience with different SNS involvement; and how SNS involvement affect people’s online media use.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the funding of this study from the Bowling Green State University Research Capacity Enhancement Grant and the Toledo Blade.
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Ha, L., Hu, X. (2013). Social Media Involvement Among College Students and General Population: Implications to Media Management. In: Friedrichsen, M., Mühl-Benninghaus, W. (eds) Handbook of Social Media Management. Media Business and Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28897-5_44
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