Uninformed and Misinformed
Advancing a Theoretical Model for Social Media News Use and Political Knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22010707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sangwon Lee (0000-0003-2471-8079, New Mexico State University, corresponding author), Edson C Tandoc (0000-0002-8740-9313, Nanyang Technological University), Trevor Diehl (0000-0001-5424-3241, Central Michigan University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 431-450 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Digital Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2167-0811 • E-ISSN: 2167-082X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21670811.2023.2180404 |
| OpenAlex | W4322733282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 54 |
Scholarship has now recognized the potentially detrimental effects of social media on political knowledge. At the same time, a separate but similar line of work has raised concerns that these platforms are the primary vector of political misinformation. Despite the renewed focus on misinformation studies, the question as to whether political knowledge and susceptibility to misinformation are related remains open. If they are indeed related, we still know little about the underlying cognitive mechanisms that drive political learning when people rely on social media for news. Based on a two-wave panel survey collected during the 2020 U.S. presidential election, we found that social media news use fosters the news-finds-me perception (particularly among those who feel overwhelmed with the volume of information available on social media). This, in turn, leads people to be both uninformed and misinformed about politics and current affairs. Implications for democracy are discussed
Fake news · Media studies · News media · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Social Media and Politics
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The Dynamics of Misinformation Sharing
The architecture of misleading
Effects of National Voting Experience During High School on Political Participation
A Self-Righteous, Not a Virtuous, Circle
News Finds Me as the illusion of competence
The Effects of Digital Media on Political Knowledge and Participation in Election Campaigns
The Paradox of Participation Versus Misinformation
News Information Processing as Mediator of the Relationship between Motivations and Political Knowledge
The effects of news consumption via social media and news information overload on perceptions of journalistic norms and practices
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Perceived News Overload and Its Cognitive and Attitudinal Consequences for News Usage in South Korea
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Testing the cognitive involvement hypothesis on social media
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Constructing Discourses on (Un)truthfulness
What Is (Fake) News? Analyzing News Values (and More) in Fake Stories
Too much information? Predictors of information overload in the context of online news exposure
‘I saw it on Facebook’
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The diffusion of misinformation on social media
Psychological and Health Outcomes of Perceived Information Overload
Rethinking the Virtuous Circle Hypothesis on Social Media
Characterizing social media manipulation in the 2020 U.S. presidential election
Social Media News Use and Political Cynicism
The Role of Engagement in Learning From Active and Incidental News Exposure on Social Media
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Do tabloids poison the well of social media? Explaining democratically dysfunctional news sharing
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Effects of the News-Finds-Me Perception in Communication
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Accuracy in detecting truths and lies
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Misinformation and the Currency of Democratic Citizenship
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Truth, Deliberative Democracy, and the Virtues of Accuracy
The New Personal Influence
Why Don’t We Learn from Social Media? Studying Effects of and Mechanisms behind Social Media News Use on General Surveillance Political Knowledge
Curated Flows
The case for motivated reasoning
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |