2.3 Why people watch YouTube?
YouTube is a video sharing service that lets users watch videos posted by other users and upload videos of their own. For users, …show more content…
One is Social Cognitive Theory which occurs when people consume the video contents that they are watching. Social Cognition is made on two major parts: stimulus and response. Stimulus is represented by the information gained from the media source and Response is the conclusion that people automatically creates based on the information they receive (Shrum, 2002). Shrum also argues that not all the information people obtain creates actual opinion on something but there are selected data that people retrieves and prefers to remember. Shrum’s theoretical explanation meets Bandura’s practical approach regarding Social Cognitive. According to them, judgment is interpreted as behavior that people are choosing when earning specific information. They also stated that not all data are used up by the people and they do not use everything that they learn. People only do the information that they are related with or information that appeal to them. As a result to this, human behavior is determined by the influence of people’s environment and their attitude to a specific topic. Social Cognitive Theory explains the viewers’ addiction, attitude, behavior, and the way their manners are affected in reality on video contents they watch (Luszchynska and Schwarzer