A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Measuring News Media Literacy

Vraga, Emily K.; Tully, Melissa; Kotcher, John; Smithson, Anne-Bennett; Broeckelman-Post, Melissa A.

doi:10.23860/jmle-7-3-4

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“…Self-perceived news literacy. SPNL was measured using two items adapted from Vraga et al (2015), which asked participants their agreement on seven-point scales meant to gauge their sense of their confidence in their ability to interpret media messages. These two items were averaged to form an index.…”

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Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter

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Bode

2021

New Media & Society

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Extending previous research, we test two solutions for addressing misinformation by pairing news literacy (NL) messages with corrective responses to health misinformation shared on Twitter. Importantly, we consider a range of outcomes, including not just credibility or misperceptions, but also feelings of news literacy and support for its value. Using an experiment, we find that user corrections of a meme containing false information reduced credibility assessments of the misinformation post and misperceptions but seeing misinformation also produced lower perceptions of personal news literacy and its value for society, regardless of whether it is corrected or not. Exposure to an NL message did not enhance the effectiveness of these corrective responses nor boost NL attitudes and may have generated cynicism. We discuss the challenges of designing NL messages for social media that achieve the wide range of goals news literacy interventions aspire to address.

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“…Value for news literacy. Two items were adapted from the VML scale proposed by Vraga et al (2015), which asked people to rate on seven-point scales their agreement with NL being important for democracy and the need for critical evaluation.…”

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Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter

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Tully

Bode

2021

New Media & Society

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“…Information literacy programs, for example, have employed and extended the CRAAP Method (Currency, Reliability, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose) for evaluating information with an increased focus on using CRAAP for lateral reading (Fielding, 2019), an approach that prioritizes evaluating content but does not address the broader environment (Ashley, 2020). News literacy research has tended to examine knowledge, beliefs and attitudes, although there is inconsistency in these approaches (Amazeen and Bucy, 2019; Maksl et al, 2015; Vraga et al, 2015). For one, researchers have struggled to create news literacy measures that adequately capture essential knowledge and skills.…”

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Defining and conceptualizing news literacy

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Interest in news literacy inside and outside the academy has grown alongside related concerns about the quality of news and information available. Attempts to fully define, explicate and operationalize news literacy, however, are scattered. Drawing on literature across journalism and mass communication, we propose a definition of news literacy that combines knowledge of news production, distribution and consumption with skills that help audiences assert control over their relationship with news. We propose that knowledge and skills should be conceptualized across five domains: context, creation, content, circulation and consumption. This explication offers a clear, concise and cohesive path for research about news literacy, especially empirical testing to evaluate news literacy and its effectiveness in contributing to relevant behaviours. This framework also offers a consistent, yet flexible, approach to measuring news literacy across diverse contexts.

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“…In particular, communication scholars are foregrounding the influence of social media platforms, digital‐born news media and online commenting functions in sustaining CCS (Adam and Häussler, 2019; Fownes et al., 2018; Gil de Zúñiga. Jung and Venezuela, 2012; Tschötschel et al., 2020; Vraga et al., 2015; Winter et al., 2015). Da Costa and Cukierman (2019), for example, investigate controversies surrounding the anthropogenic nature of climate change on the Portuguese Wikipedia pages.…”

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“…Climate change scepticism appears to be linked to transnational networks within the virtual geographies of the Internet. Work on media literacy in the context of climate change thus supports an approach that fosters the skill of individuals to (re)discover and practise their ability to critically question the authorship, intentions and credibility of media sources (Cooper, 2011; Lutzke et al., 2019; Vraga et al., 2015).…”

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Geographies of climate change opinion

2022

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Climate change can only be tackled with public support for sustainable policies. Thus, public attitudes towards climate change matter. More than 3 decades of climate change opinion (CCO) research—conducted by geographers, environmental psychologists, behavioural scientists, sociologists etc.—have provided us with a wealth of information about which predictors shape public CCOs. This review synthesises these findings and highlights the different geographies (the self, the nation, the region, the digital) that emerge within this research. Given the increased importance of social media, virtual geographies of climate change scepticism are increasingly being identified. Our paper argues that new research agendas must be developed to address the meshwork of virtual space and small scale geographies (regions, towns, districts) in which CCOs are formed.

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A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Measuring News Media Literacy

Cited by 32 publications

References 23 publications

Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter

Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter

Defining and conceptualizing news literacy

Geographies of climate change opinion

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