scholarly journals Overconfidence in news judgments is associated with false news susceptibility

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (23) ◽  
pp. e2019527118
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. Lyons ◽  
Jacob M. Montgomery ◽  
Andrew M. Guess ◽  
Brendan Nyhan ◽  
Jason Reifler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Relative Ability ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
False News ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
News Headlines

We examine the role of overconfidence in news judgment using two large nationally representative survey samples. First, we show that three in four Americans overestimate their relative ability to distinguish between legitimate and false news headlines; respondents place themselves 22 percentiles higher than warranted on average. This overconfidence is, in turn, correlated with consequential differences in real-world beliefs and behavior. We show that overconfident individuals are more likely to visit untrustworthy websites in behavioral data; to fail to successfully distinguish between true and false claims about current events in survey questions; and to report greater willingness to like or share false content on social media, especially when it is politically congenial. In all, these results paint a worrying picture: The individuals who are least equipped to identify false news content are also the least aware of their own limitations and, therefore, more susceptible to believing it and spreading it further.

Explaining the association of race and COVID-19 vaccination intentions: the role of behavioral beliefs and trust in COVID-19 information sources

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chioma Woko ◽  
Leeann Siegel ◽  
Robert Hornik
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Behavioral Beliefs ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
Nationally Representative

The development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a critical strategy for combatting the pandemic. However, in order for vaccination efforts to succeed, there must be widespread willingness to vaccinate. Prior research has found that Black Americans, who have already been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, report lower intentions to get a vaccine than do other populations. In this study, we investigate potential causes of this disparity, focusing on vaccine-related behavioral beliefs and trust in four COVID-19 information sources (mainstream media, social media, President Trump, and public health officials and agencies). Using a nationally-representative survey (n=889), we demonstrate that differences in vaccine beliefs explain the lower vaccine intentions reported by Black participants compared to non-Black participants. However, while we find associations between trust in information sources and vaccine beliefs, we do not find evidence that differences in trust accounted for the observed differences in vaccine beliefs by race. Furthermore, we found evidence of moderation; the association of trust in two sources, Trump and public health officials and agencies, with beliefs were smaller among Black participants. Overall, our results suggest that trust in information sources alone does not explain the observed relationship between race and vaccine beliefs. This relationship warrants further investigation.

scholarly journals COVID-19, Social Media, and the Role of the Public Physician

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Joel M. Topf ◽  
Paul N. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Public ◽  
Large Segment ◽  
Core Part ◽  
Audience Size

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an avalanche of information, much of it false or misleading. Social media posts with misleading or dangerous opinions and analyses are often amplified by celebrities and social media influencers; these posts have contributed substantially to this avalanche of information. An emerging force in this information infodemic is public physicians, doctors who view a public presence as a large segment of their mission. These physicians bring authority and real-world experience to the COVID-19 discussion. To investigate the role of public physicians, we interviewed a convenience cohort of physicians who have played a role in the infodemic. We asked the physicians about how their roles have changed, how their audience has changed, what role politics plays, and how they address misinformation. The physicians noted increased audience size with an increased focus on the pandemic. Most avoided confronting politics, but others found it unavoidable or that even if they tried to avoide it, it would be brought up by their audience. The physicians felt that confronting and correcting misinformation was a core part of their mission. Public physicians on social media are a new occurrence and are an important part of fighting online misinformation.

scholarly journals Beyond “fake news”: The role of analytic thinking in the detection of inaccuracy and partisan bias in news headlines

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M Ross ◽  
David Gertler Rand ◽  
Gordon Pennycook
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Total N ◽  
Partisan Bias ◽  
News Content ◽  
Political Bias ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
News Headlines

Why is misleading partisan content believed and shared? An influential account posits that political partisanship pervasively biases reasoning, such that engaging in analytic thinking exacerbates motivated reasoning and, in turn, the acceptance of hyperpartisan content. Alternatively, it may be that susceptibility to hyperpartisan misinformation is explained by a lack of reasoning. Across two studies using different subject pools (total N = 1977), we had participants assess true, false, and hyperpartisan headlines taken from social media. We found no evidence that analytic thinking was associated with increased polarization for either judgments about the accuracy of the headlines or willingness to share the news content on social media. Instead, analytic thinking was broadly associated with an increased capacity to discern between true headlines and either false or hyperpartisan headlines. These results suggest that reasoning typically helps people differentiate between low and high quality news content, rather than facilitating political bias.

scholarly journals The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Restoring Green Concepts: Qataris Response to Social Media Campaigns

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
And Behavior

This research focuses on consumer behavior in Qatar and the individual social responsibility in support of environment. The research also describes the role of social media and CSR in promoting awareness campaigns and how effective they are in changing conceptions and behavior. This is measured by focusing on standards, emotions and actions of individuals and how they are affected by CSR campaigns launched by corporations and public sectors.The study measures the uses and impact of new media technology such as mobile applications and social media in achieving the environment pillar of Qatar vision 2030 in addition to designing effective CSR campaign. The Trans theoretical Model of behavior change, by Prochaska and DiClemente (1983) will be examined through a quantitative analysis on social media users.

scholarly journals Incidental Effects of Automated Retweeting: An Exploratory Network Perspective on Bot Activity During Sri Lanka’s Presidential Election in 2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chamil Rathnayake ◽  
Wayne Buente
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Eigenvector Centrality ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
And Behavior

The role of automated or semiautomated social media accounts, commonly known as “bots,” in social and political processes has gained significant scholarly attention. The current body of research discusses how bots can be designed to achieve specific purposes as well as instances of unexpected negative outcomes of such use. We suggest that the interplay between social media affordances and user practices can result in incidental effects from automated agents. We examined a Twitter network data set with 1,782 nodes and 5,640 edges to demonstrate the engagement and outreach of a retweeting bot called Siripalabot that was popular among Sri Lankan Twitter users. The bot served the simple function of retweeting tweets with hashtags #SriLanka and #lk to its follower network. However, the co-use of #Sri Lanka and/or #lk with #PresPollSL, a hashtag used to discuss politics related to Sri Lanka’s presidential election in 2015, resulted in the bot incidentally amplifying the political voice of less engaged actors. The analysis demonstrated that the bot dominated the network in terms of engagement (out-degree) and the ability to connect distant clusters of actors (betweenness centrality) while more traditional actors, such as the main election candidates and news accounts, indicated more prestige (in-degree) and power (eigenvector centrality). We suggest that the study of automated agents should include designer intentions, the design and behavior of automated agents, user expectations, as well as unintended and incidental effects of interaction.

scholarly journals MANFAAT PENGGUNAAN MEDIA YOUTUBE TERHADAP PERKEMBANGAN ANAK SEKOLAH DASAR DI ASRAMA SPN CISARUA BANDUNG BARAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Iqbal Rediansyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Online Game ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
And Behavior

such as YouTube content that are popular with children namely online game tutorials, vloger content that is being hit on YouTube, see foreign music bands that are currently being hit are boy bands or girl bands from korea that is on the gadgets or computers respectively. This study aims to determine the process of managing YouTube media in knowledge and behavior towards children at an early age from 6 to 12 years. The theory used in this research is the PLS concept, Youtube. The researcher formulated The researcher formulated three questions 1. To find out the use of YouTube social media in early childhood in the SPN Cisarua Dormitory, 2. To find out the role of parents in managing YouTube's social media for children, 3. To see children's responses to the use of YouTube social media. YouTube media management in West Bandung Cisarua Dormitory in this study researchers used a quantitative approach. Data collected through interviews, observation and documentation. As for the population of this study yatu children who are housed in the Cisarua West Bandung Dormitory. The results of this study most children know about YouTube just for their pleasure and become their passion because every time they play more gadgets than playing outside.

scholarly journals Sarcasm Discernment on Social Media Platform

2021 ◽  
Vol 309 ◽  
pp. 01037
Author(s):  
Namasani Sagarika ◽  
Bommadi Sreenija Reddy ◽  
Vanka Varshitha ◽  
Kodavati Geetanjali ◽  
N V Ganapathi Raju ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Sole Purpose ◽  
News Websites ◽  
News Website ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
News Headlines

Past studies in Sarcasm Detection mostly make use of Twitter datasets collected using hashtag-based supervision but such datasets are noisy in terms of labels and language. To overcome the limitations related to noise in Twitter datasets, this News Headlines dataset for Sarcasm Detection is collected from two news website. TheOnion aims at producing sarcastic versions of current events and we collected all the headlines from News in Brief and News in Photos categories (which are sarcastic). We collect real (and non-sarcastic) news headlines from Huff Post. Sarcasm Detection on social media platform. The dataset is collected from two news websites, theonion.com and huffingtonpost.com. Since news headlines are written by professionals in a formal manner, there are no spelling mistakes and informal usage. This reduces the sparsity and also increases the chance of finding pre-trained embeddings. Furthermore, since the sole purpose of TheOnion is to publish sarcastic news, we get high-quality labels with much less noise as compared to Twitter datasets. Unlike tweets that reply to other tweets, the news headlines obtained are self-contained.

scholarly journals ETIKA BERMEDIA SOSIAL PEREMPUAN FATAYAT MELALUI PENGUATAN PENGETAHUAN LITERASI MEDIA DI SITUBONDO

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-96
Author(s):  
Nur Ainiyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
New World ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Media And Technology

Media and technology take us to an era of information literacy. The pattern of communication and conversation on social media recently tends to provoke, shows the low ethics of Indonesian society in in the public domain communication such as social media. It is undeniable that women also took part as a subject in social media, including the Fatayat group in Situbondo. This study emphasizes the empowerment of social media ethics towards fatayat women in Situbondo through media literacy to fight hoax. It was a qualitative-explorative research by examined how fatayat ethics and behavior in communication through social media and how women are ethically empowered through strengthening knowledge media literacy. Social media in fatayat women live brings and forms a new world in interacting and communicating. Manage contents via Facebook shared and published by fatayat members, making them learn literacy. Strengthening social media ethics through media literacy is carried out in various stages, especially through monthly meetings, thematic discussions and the role of women through fatayat

scholarly journals Narration of Islamic Moderation: Counter over Negative Content on Social Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
S. Dinar Annisa Abdullah ◽  
Samudera Alfatra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
East Kalimantan ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Campaign Activity ◽  
Education Campaigns ◽  
And Behavior

This study tires to explore on how far the idea of Islamic moderation was adopted by Duta Damai of East Kalimantan in order to support a campaign of harmony in diversity. Using content analysis, this study tries to describe in depth the information content of Duta Damai community in East Kalimantan. The results of the study indicate that Duta Damai of East Kalimantan conducted counter-narratives of negative content on social media through opinions and statuses on social media, including: (1) alignment of Pancasila ideology with religious teachings, (2) revealing facts and education related to hoaxes ( 3) multicultural education campaigns and respect for differences, (4) actualization of the contemporary jihad. These four things are in line with the idea of Islamic, meaning that the community actualizes the idea of Islamic moderation in every campaign activity and movement. Through the tagline 'peace is Indonesia', Duta Damai of East Kalimantan want youth groups to actively campaign for the importance of positive speech and behavior and spread peaceful movement, both in the cyberspace and in the real world.

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