First-Generation Immigrants’ and Sojourners’ Believability Evaluation of Disinformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21637413 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Solyee Kim (0000-0002-6428-8387, University of Georgia, corresponding author), Hyoyeun Jun (0000-0002-5283-9831, Salve Regina University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 216-231 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Howard Journal of Communications (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1064-6175 • E-ISSN: 1096-4649 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10646175.2022.2027296 |
| OpenAlex | W4210558769 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
News consumption enhances the contact experience for first-generation immigrants and sojourners in their acculturation to the host culture. Using acculturation theory, this study explores interdisciplinary concepts related to understanding immigrants’ and sojourners’ believability evaluation of disinformation. The authors conducted an online experiment to examine the believability of disinformation by asking immigrants and sojourners (N = 71) to discern online news stories without disinformation from online stories containing disinformation. The present study found that first-generation immigrants and sojourners with higher levels of perceived English language proficiency, longer length of stays in the U.S., and greater US news consumption are more likely to demonstrate higher news IQ, which leads to less believability of disinformation. Although news plays a critical role in understanding current events and issues pertinent to individuals’ day-to-day lives, communities, societies, and governments, immigrants and sojourners are largely marginalized populations as news consumers. As foreign-born residents make up close to 14% of the U.S. population, this study will provide meaningful insights.Supplemental data for this article is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2022.2027296
Acculturation · Disinformation · Immigration · Media consumption · Political science · Population · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |