Understanding the motivational values for the usage of specific online news media and users’ perception of information credibility Available to Purchase

Tunde Simeon Amosun is a graduate student at the Department of Sci-Tech Communication and Policy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interest focuses on social media, new media technology and its impact on the society, crisis and political communication.

Chu Jianxun (PhD), University of Science and Technology of China, 2006) is an Associate Professor of Media Management at the Department of Sci-Tech Communication and Policy, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and also the Deputy Director of Science Communication Research Centre at USTC, Hefei, China. His research focuses on the impact of Social Media, Social Networks and Transactive Memory Systems in the fields of Innovation Diffusion, Science Communication and Crisis Communication based on Big Data and modeling simulation of System Dynamics. He has been invited to give a keynote speech at conferences including the International Communication Association, System Dynamics Society, International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) and Sino-German Social Computing. Further, he is the PI of several projects by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC #71573241), the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the China Association for Science and Technology.

Olayemi Hafeez Rufai is a PhD student at the Department of Sci-Tech Communication and Policy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interest focuses on social media and crisis communication.

Muhideen Sayibu is a PhD student in the Department of Sci-Tech Communication and Policy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interest focuses on educational technology, new media and crisis communication.

Riffat Shahani is a PhD student in the Department of Sci-Tech Communication and Policy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Science and Technology of China. Her research interest focuses on management, public affairs, social media, health communication and crisis communication.

Muhimpundu Nadege is a masters student in the School of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of China. Her research interest focuses on governance, online platform studies and communication.

Tolulope B. Olaiya is a masters student in the School of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of China. Her research interest focuses social entrepreneurship, innovation and proximity.