Empowering social media users
Nudge toward self-engaged verification for improved truth and sharing discernment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22693294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fangjing Tu (0000-0001-8748-7250, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 225-236 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9916 • E-ISSN: 1460-2466 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/joc/jqae007 |
| OpenAlex | W4392631097 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 50 |
How can we empower social media users to better discern the veracity of news and share less false news? This survey experiment (N = 636) assessed the effectiveness of two interventions—signing a Pro-Truth Pledge and utilizing a Fact-Checking Guide. Results showed that utilizing the Fact-Checking Guide increased skepticism of news posts, likelihood to verify news posts, verification engagement, and reduced intention to share news without regard to news veracity. Before and after comparisons indicated that after verification engagement activities, truth and sharing discernment improved with higher factual accuracy ratings for true news, lower accuracy ratings for false news, and a greater likelihood to share true news compared to false news. Individual’s engagement in verification was identified as a crucial mechanism through which the Fact-Checking Guide intervention led to better truth and sharing discernment. The study could inform social media designs that promote a truthful news environment.
Advertising · Business · Discernment · Internet privacy · Pledge · Political science · Psychological intervention · Skepticism · Social media · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Theory of Media Literacy
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
When Do Audiences Verify? How Perceptions About Message and Source Influence Audience Verification of News Headlines
Developing a News Media Literacy Scale
Nudging and Boosting
Social Influence
Dual-Process Theories of Higher Cognition
The madness of misperceptions
Believing and Sharing False News on Social Media
News literacy, social media behaviors, and skepticism toward information on social media
Media Literacy, Media Education, and the Academy
The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion
Lazy, not biased
Inoculating Against Fake News About Covid-19
Objective Self-Awareness Theory
Rethinking nudge
Political Psychology in the Digital (mis)Information age
Seeking Out and Avoiding the News Media
Can News Literacy Help Reduce Belief in Covid Misinformation
Designing and Testing News Literacy Messages for Social Media
Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news
The unedited public sphere
The fake news game
Facts are hard to come by
Theorizing News Literacy Behaviors
On the Nature of Reactance and its Role in Persuasive Health Communication
Fact-Checking
Does Media Literacy Help Identification of Fake News? Information Literacy Helps, but Other Literacies Don't
A meta-analysis of correction effects in science-relevant misinformation
Spreadable Spectacle in Digital Culture
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation
Fighting Fake News and Post-Truth Politics with Behavioral Science
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |