NEWS READING HABITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA USERS: COMMENTS, SHARES AND LIKES

Taybe TOPSAKAL¹

News reading habits of readers vary with the arrival of the new media. Readers can like, comment and share so readily what they what. Sensational headlines, interesting ve current issues can draw more attention and get more feedbacks. Internet mediated and virtual communication can lead to comfortable and irresponsible behaviors that are seen less face to face. Internet platforms and news site pages sometimes can turn into lynch and hate situation. Desire to express oneself and momentary reaction greatly is seen in comments and sharings. Comments, sharings and likes find out that readers react what kind of news and topics. In this study, haberturk.com.tr that is Turkish news web site is examined in terms of what kind of news topics that readers comment, share and like in a specific date. Research results indicate that what kind of news are more or less responsive in terms of readers.

Keywords
Social Media, News Sites, Social Media News, User Behaviours, Digital Media ,