Ideological lens matters: Credibility heuristics, pre-existing attitudes, and reactions to messages on ideological websites

Ault, Michael K.; Ness, Alisha M.; Taylor, William D.; Johnson, Genevieve Marie; Connelly, Shane; Jensen, Matthew L.; Dunbar, Norah E.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.053

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“…Other studies have explored citizens' perceptions of the credibility of fictitious or manipulated political news articles, websites, or social media accounts (e.g. Grimmelikhuijsen, 2011;Housholder and LaMarre, 2014;Ault et al, 2017). Meanwhile, drawing on the fields of anthropology and social psychology, Kahan and Braman (2006) have argued that a citizen's cultural worldview is a more powerful heuristic than their political affiliation when dealing with information on government policy issues, in a set of processes they call "cultural cognition".…”

Section: Theoretical Underpinningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scottish citizens’ perceptions of the credibility of online political “facts” in the “fake news” era

Baxter

Marcella

Walicka

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study that explored public perceptions of the credibility of “facts and figures” contained within five social media posts produced by political parties in Scotland. Design/methodology/approach The study consisted of an online survey conducted in Spring 2017 (n=538). Respondents were asked to gauge the reliability of “facts” contained within the posts, to provide reasons for their answers, and to indicate how they might go about confirming or debunking the figures. Findings Less than half the sample believed the posts’ content would be reliable. Credibility perceptions were influenced by various factors, including: a lack of cited sources; concerns about bias or spin; a lack of detail, definitions or contextual information; personal political allegiance and trust; negative campaign techniques; personal experience of policy issues; and more intuitive judgements. Only small numbers admitted that they would not know how to find out more about the issues or would be disinclined to look further. The majority appeared confident in their own abilities to find further information, yet were vague in describing their search strategies. Originality/value Relatively little empirical research has been conducted exploring the perceived credibility of political or government information online. It is believed that this is the first such study to have specifically investigated the Scottish political arena.

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Section: Theoretical Underpinningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scottish citizens’ perceptions of the credibility of online political “facts” in the “fake news” era

Baxter

Marcella

Walicka

2019

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“…In line with Hackett et al (2005)'s study, governmental and public sectors tended to use websites to promote their good images to the public. However, the website's visitors would be easily manipulated if the website presented manipulative discourses (Ault et al, 2017). There is no exception in a school's website.…”

Section: Girls' Schools and School Websitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deconstruction of the Discourse of Femininity: A Case of Thai Girls’ Schools

Satienchayakorn

Jimarkon

2021

Sustainable Multilingualism

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Summary The study investigates the construction of femininity ideologies of girls-only school websites in Thailand and deconstructs them for analysis at the lexical level. Ideological beliefs underlying the custom of upbringing of young women in Thai cultural contexts are the focus of investigation. We pay a particular attention to how the schools communicate their key messages of vision, mission, core values, and about us on their websites and conduct a corpus-driven discourse analysis on the data. Findings from running tests of frequency and collocation reveal the traits of femininity constructed in the discourse, built the praising of obedience, submissiveness and lady-like features. We conclude that benevolent sexism is a common cultural practice evident in educational institutions.

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“…In fact, open antagonism in the official political discourse towards both intellectuals and journalists is a common characteristic of the emerging authoritarian regimes (Carlson, 2018). This is being possible by social media and networking services that enable the formation of isolated information ecosystems, distant from both science and the professional media (Ault et al, 2017;Alsaad et al, 2018). Such information ecosystems become trusted sources of information because they are founded upon emotional feedback loops (Boler and Davis, 2018) and friendship networks (Jost et al, 2018a).…”

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confidence: 99%