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Bahiyah Omar is Associate Professor in the School of communication at Universiti Sains Malaysia. She teaches new media journalism and quantitative research method at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She earned her Ph.D. in Arts from the School of English, communication and Performances Studies, Monash University Australia. When she was an early career researcher, she had the privilege of becoming an Adjunct Research Fellow (2010–2014) for the media and communication division at Monash University Australia. She has published many papers/chapters in several areas such as online news consumption, social media effects, media/news credibility, news reporting and framing, mobile media usage and fake news sharing. Her work has appeared in Telematics and Informatics, Newspaper Research Journal, The Round Table, Asia Pacific Journal of Communication, and International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, among others.

Hosam Al-Samarraie is Associate Professor in digital innovation design at the School of Design, University of Leeds, UK. He is also a visiting researcher at Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research lies at the intersection of human–computer interaction, user modeling, social computation and machine learning. He is interested in developing and investigating new ideas and concepts for the aim of maximizing the performance of digital communication systems that are well-situated around specific individual needs, behaviors, culture and intentions rather than as we want or assume them to be.

Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani is Professor of informatics at the Computer Science Department, Community College, King Saud University. His main research interests span over the area of information systems including adoption and diffusion of emerging information technologies, IT management and human interaction with social media and latest technologies.

Ng See Kee is Lecturer in the School of communication at Universiti Sains Malaysia. Her research covers online information processing, individual engagement with information and digital education.