Building resilience to misinformation

A cross-national development of the Digital Media and Information Literacy Scale (DMILS)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19224345
AutoresSijia Qian (0000-0001-7949-1153, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, autor correspondente), Cuihua Shen (0000-0003-3871-8256, Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, USA), C-K Shen (University of California, Davis), Huiyi Wang (0009-0006-6797-7416, Renmin University of China), Hichang Cho (0000-0003-1715-4797, National University of Singapore)
Ano2026
Data de publicação2026-05-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14614448261448549
OpenAlexW7162199536
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas36

Amid growing concern about information quality and credibility in digital media environments, researchers and educators still lack a concise, comprehensive yet psychometrically sound instrument for tracking the various competencies that help people navigate this landscape. This article develops the Digital Media and Information Literacy Scale (DMILS)—a robust and multidimensional measure that distinguishes domain (digital vs information/news), competency type (knowledge vs skill), and is measured through both subjective and objective items. Through two empirical studies with three nationally matched samples in the United States and Singapore ( N = 1498), we developed an 18-item self-report battery and 16-item objective knowledge questions, showing strong structural, convergent, and predictive validity, along with a short form (eight self-report and eight objective items). By offering a parsimonious yet multidimensional yardstick, DMILS enables rigorous evaluation of media literacy interventions and supplies a common metric for cross-national research, critical for building an information ecosystem resilient to mis- and disinformation

Credibility · Digital Literacy · Digital media · Information literacy · Information quality · Media literacy · Metric (unit) · Psychological intervention · Psychological resilience · Scale (ratio) · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Social Media and Politics