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Corrections as Risk Communication and Community Engagement on Social Media: How Observing Corrections of Misinformation from the WHO Increases Support for the WHO
ABSTRACT Declining trust in public health organizations has (not coincidentally) coincided with a rise in health misinformation on social media. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) strategically employed corrective communications to counter common misinformation as an important aspect of its risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) efforts.
Seeing the Digital Sphere: The Case for Public Platform Data
A Special Series from Tech Policy Press and the Knight-Georgetown Institute. Should we be able to understand the risks kids face online? Understand how brands communicate with consumers? How politicians communicate online? These questions – and many more – can only be answered when public platform data is accessible. Online platforms shape what we know, how we connect, and who gets heard.
Boosters and boosters: how sports fans and partisans react to athlete statements on vaccination
ABSTRACT The highly polarized North American experience with COVID-19 often intertwined with sports, meaning that messages were filtered through differing social identities, political partisan and sports fan. This experimental study finds political identities more salient than sports fandom when hearing athlete’s views on vaccination; only self-identified political independents saw any attitudinal change athletes’ perspectives.
Who reports witnessing and performing corrections on social media in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and France?
Article Metrics Observed corrections of misinformation on social media can encourage more accurate beliefs, but for these benefits to occur, corrections must happen. By exploring people’s perceptions of witnessing and performing corrections on social media, we find that many people say they observe and perform corrections across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France.
Political Events in a Partisan Media Ecology: Asymmetric Influence on Candidate Appraisals
Jiyoun Suka Department of Communication, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT USACorrespondencejiyoun.suk@uconn.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4690-2395View further author information , Dhavan V.
The layered, Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation
COVID-19 has threatened the world with the worst pandemic in a century (Steenhuysen 2021), resulting in more than 100 million cases and more than 2 million deaths worldwide (WHO 2021). And despite the spectacular scientific achievement of developing multiple safe and effective vaccines in record time (Petri 2020), the world is not out of the woods yet.
The Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation
ABSTRACT The World Health Organization declared the deluge of publicly available information about COVID-19 to be an “infodemic,” comprising both facts and misinformation. Researchers don’t know exactly the degree to which people believe the misinformation they see online, but, in the case of COVID-19, belief in conspiracy theories related to the virus is associated with people being less willing to get vaccinated, potentially putting public health at risk.
Value for Correction: Documenting Perceptions about Peer Correction of Misinformation on Social Media in the Context of COVID-19
Authors Leticia Bode Georgetown University Emily K. Vraga DOI: https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2021.016 Keywords: social media, misinformation, correction Abstract Although correction is often suggested as a tool against misinformation, and empirical research suggests it can be an effective one, we know little about how people perceive the act of correcting people on social media.
Correction Experiences on Social Media During COVID-19
Observational Correction on Social Media During COVID-19 The World Health Organization (WHO) has called attention to the “infodemic” that exists alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that social media plays a dangerous role in amplifying the spread of misinformation (WHO, 2020).
People-powered correction
Many have pointed to the qualities of social media that could explain why misinformation is so powerful online: the lack of established gatekeepers, less prominent signals for high-quality information, monetary incentives to promote viral spread, and malicious actors, to name a few.
Addressing COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media
close Please confirm that you would like to log out of Medscape. If you log out, you will be required to enter your username and password the next time you visit. Log out Cancel In This Article Abstract and Introduction Abstract Efforts to address misinformation on social media have special urgency with the emergence of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In one effort, the World Health Organization (WHO) designed and publicized shareable infographics to debunk coronavirus myths.
Correcting Misperceptions About Genetically Modified Food on Social Media: Examining the Impact of Experts, Social Media Heuristics, and the Gateway Belief Model - Leticia Bode, Emily K. Vraga, Melissa Tully, 2021
Avram, M., Micallef, N., Patil, S., Menczer, F. (2020, July 28). Exposure to social engagement metrics increases vulnerability to misinformation. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-033 Google Scholar Berinsky, A., Huber, G., Lenz, G. (2012). Evaluating online labor markets for experimental research: Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. Political Analysis, 20(3), 351-368. https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpr057 Google Scholar Bhandari, M. (2018).
Mobilizing Users: Does Exposure to Misinformation and Its Correction Affect Users’ Responses to a Health Misinformation Post?
Misinformation in the areas of health and science is abundant online, and increasingly scholars are drawing attention to this as a problem that has personal and public health implications (Chou et al., 2018). In addition, studies suggest that misinformation can spread on social media more quickly than accurate information, spurred by users who “like,” “share,” and “reply” to false posts (Broniatowski et al., 2018; Vosoughi et al., 2018).
Understanding high- and low-quality URL Sharing on COVID-19 Twitter streams
Abstract This article investigates the prevalence of high and low quality URLs shared on Twitter when users discuss COVID-19. We distinguish between high quality health sources, traditional news sources, and low quality misinformation sources. We find that misinformation, in terms of tweets containing URLs from low quality misinformation websites, is shared at a higher rate than tweets containing URLs on high quality health information websites.
The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA) publications
Scholars (including in this issue of AJPH) have debated which interventions limit the spread of health misinformation on social media, including promoting high-quality information, removing misinformation from platforms, and inoculating people against misinformation by bolstering news, information, and health literacy.
Do the right thing: Tone may not affect correction of misinformation on social media
Article Metrics Peer Reviewed An experiment conducted with 610 participants suggests that corrections to misinformation—pointing out information that is wrong or misleading and offering credible information in its place—on social media reduce misperceptions regardless of the correction’s tone (uncivil, affirmational, or neutral).
Testing the Effectiveness of Correction Placement and Type on Instagram
Amazeen, Michelle A., Thorson, Emily, Muddiman, Ashley, Graves, Lucas. 2018. “Correcting Political and Consumer Misperceptions: The Effectiveness and Effects of Rating Scale versus Contextual Correction Formats.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 95:28–48. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | ISI Appelman, Alyssa, Sundar, S. Shyam. 2016. “Measuring Message Credibility: Construction and Validation of an Exclusive Scale.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 93:59–79.
Analysis | Americans are fighting coronavirus misinformation on social media
Misinformation is always a problem. Misinformation about breaking news, like the coronavirus, is particularly problematic. Sharing misinformation about covid-19 is widespread — a white paper we recently published shows that people shared links on Twitter to misinformation sites almost as often as links to credible health websites like the WHO. Misinformation isn’t going anywhere — but our research, described below, suggests one solution.
Addressing COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media Preemptively and Responsively
Emily K. Vraga and Leticia Bode Author affiliations: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (E.K. Vraga); Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA (L. Bode) The uncertainty around the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, a novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has led to the rapid and widespread diffusion of misinformation about the virus, its origins, and effective prevention and treatment strategies (1,2).
Addressing COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media Preemptively and Responsively
Emily K. Vraga and Leticia Bode Author affiliations: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (E.K. Vraga); Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA (L. Bode) The uncertainty around the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, a novel coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has led to the rapid and widespread diffusion of misinformation about the virus, its origins, and effective prevention and treatment strategies (1,2).
Using Expert Sources to Correct Health Misinformation in Social Media
Aikin, K. J., Betts, K. R., O’Donoghue, A. C., Rupert, D. J., Lee, P. K., Amoozegar, J. B., Southwell, B. G. (2015). Correction of overstatement and omission in direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising. Journal of Communication, 65, 596-618. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI Aikin, K. J., Southwell, B. G., Paquin, R. S., Rupert, D. J., O’Donoghue, A. C., Betts, K. R., Lee, P. K. (2017).
Defining Misinformation and Understanding its Bounded Nature: Using Expertise and Evidence for Describing Misinformation
is an associate professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, where she holds the Don and Carole Larson Professorship in Health Communication. She researches methods to detect and correct health misinformation on social media, to limit biased processing of news messages, and to encourage attention to more diverse content online.
Creating News Literacy Messages to Enhance Expert Corrections of Misinformation on Twitter
Adornato, A. (2017). Mobile and social media journalism: A practical guide. SAGE. Google Scholar Amazeen, M. A., Thorson, E., Muddiman, A., Graves, L. (2018). Correcting political and consumer misperceptions: The effectiveness and effects of rating scale versus contextual correction formats. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 95, 28–58. https://doi.org/10.11772F1077699016678186 Google Scholar Ashley, S., Maksl, A., Craft, S. (2017).
Effect of ‘lifestyle stigma’ on public support for NHS-provisioned pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and preventative interventions for HPV and type 2 diabetes: a nationwide UK survey
Effect of ‘lifestyle stigma’ on public support for NHS-provisioned pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and preventative interventions for HPV and type 2 diabetes: a nationwide UK survey Timothy Hildebrandt1, Leticia Bode2, Jessica S C Ng1 1 Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK 2 Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA Correspondence to Dr Timothy Hildebrandt; T.R.Hildebrandt{at}lse.ac.uk Abstract...
News literacy messages can fight social media misinformation
We’ve covered research on how news literacy messages can change the way people consume news media — here’s a study on how repeated news literacy messaging can mitigate the spread of misinformation. Designing and Testing News Literacy Messages for Social Media Mass Communication and Society By Melissa Tully, Emily K. Vraga and Leticia Bode April 11, 2019 Social media misinformation is everywhere — in fact, it’s only a phone glance away.
Go Fix It: Comedy as an Agent of Political Activation*
Original Article Go Fix It: Comedy as an Agent of Political Activation* Leticia Bode Corresponding Author E-mail address: lb871@georgetown.edu Georgetown University Direct correspondence to Leticia Bode, Communication, Culture, and Technology Program, Georgetown University, 3520 Prospect St NW, Suite 311, Washington, DC 20057 〈 E-mail address: lb871@georgetown.edu 〉. Search for more papers by this author † Leticia Bode and Amy B. Becker shall share all data and coding for replication purposes.
Political ‘unfriending’ online isn’t common. A Trump presidency could change that.
The presidential election has left emotions raw, relationships strained and political conversation fraught. Just ask the millions of Americans who sat down to Thanksgiving dinner last week and spent the entire meal trying to avoid talking politics with relatives. Things have gotten so bad in the wake of the election, according to several news reports, that users on social media have been cutting ties with people whose political views they disagree with.
Pruning the news feed: Unfriending and unfollowing political content on social media
AbstractSocial media allow users some degree of control over the content to which they are exposed, through blocking, unfriending, or hiding feeds from other users. This article considers the extent to which they do so for political reasons. Survey data from Pew Research suggests that political unfriending is relatively rare, with fewer than 10% of respondents engaging in the practice.
In Related News, That Was Wrong: The Correction of Misinformation Through Related Stories Functionality in Social Media
Original Article Abstract Research on social media and research on correcting misinformation are both growing areas in communication, but for the most part they have not found common ground. This study seeks to bridge these two areas, considering the role that social media may play in correcting misinformation. To do so, we test a new function of Facebook, which provides related links when people click on a link within Facebook.
Candidate Networks, Citizen Clusters, and Political Expression
Twitter provides a direct method for political actors to connect with citizens, and for those citizens to organize into online clusters through their use of hashtags (i.e., a word or phrase marked with # to identify an idea or topic and facilitate a search for it). We examine the political alignments and networking of Twitter users, analyzing 9 million tweets produced by more than 23,000 randomly selected followers of candidates for the U.S. House and Senate and governorships in 2010.
Tweeting in defeat: How candidates concede and claim victory in 140 characters
The concession and victory speech is a ritual in American politics, described by Corcoran as a “rite of capitulation,” in which both candidates at the end of an election sanction the legitimacy of the process, agree on the outcome, and start the political transition. Concession and victory speeches emerged as a distinct convention in the television era, but as web services like Twitter take on a larger role in electoral politics, traditions like the concession are being adapted to new formats.
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