Teens, Social Media, and Fake News

Mercenier, Heidi; Wiard, Victor; Dufrasne, Marie

doi:10.1002/9781119743347.ch12

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“…Though refraining from actions such as "liking" on, for example, Facebook has implications for self-expression, young news consumers regard it as a positive approach to reducing the generation of fake news on social media. As other research shows (Powers 2017in Mercenier et al, 2021Swart, 2021), teenagers' reflections on social media "like" and "favorite" functions illustrate some level of knowledge about how algorithms impact news selection. But as Swart (2021) observes, teens in this study seem to be concerned about Facebook algorithms, and not Snapchat or Instagram as this excerpt illustrates: "I don't use Facebook very much because of fake news.…”

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confidence: 77%

Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news

Selnes

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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This article takes a qualitative approach to examine the role of fake news in shaping adolescent’s participation in news. Instead of experimental approaches that are common with similar research, the current study expands our understanding of teenagers’ engagement with news on social media using focus groups, interviews in addition to reviewing research reports by the Norwegian Media Authority. The study found that fake news is positively related to teens’ engagement with news. Contrary to reports that younger audiences have weak ties with news brands, this study shows that teens in Norway are led back to mainstream media to corroborate and fact-check news. This negates my initial assumption that fake news was bad because teens’ perspectives show fake news as positively triggering discussions around news encountered on social media. Teens engage with fake news for verification, which drives them off social media toward conventional media. This is good for news and for journalism

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 77%

Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news

Selnes

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Young people in their formative years are often seen as particularly vulnerable to disinformation due to their media consumption habits and cognitive development processes (Middaugh, 2019); however, there could be a crucial advantage in challenging misinformation and building resilience against disinformation in younger years. Cognitive biases such as motivated reasoning hinder challenging political misinformation as corrections compete with internalized partisan and racial identities and rigid ideological reasoning (Lawrence and Sides, 2014;Nyhan and Reifler, 2010).…”

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“…Similarly, young people may better build resilience against disinformation (also, Middaugh, 2019). Increasing age is related to higher exposure, susceptibility and sharing of fake news (for example, Brashier and Schacter, 2020;Grinberg et al, 2019;Guess et al, 2019), explained by cognitive decline, low digital literacy and cognitive biases such as motivated reasoning.…”

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Mind the gap: Young people and welfare-state related knowledge in deservingness and welfare attitude research

Sowula

2023

Journal of European Social Policy

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Welfare deservingness opinions help explain welfare attitudes and hence are crucial for understanding the social legitimacy of the welfare state. However, even when considering deservingness alongside other explanatory frameworks, many open questions remain in the welfare attitude framework. This article argues that a novel research agenda focusing on welfare-state related knowledge and young people could considerably enrich current debates in deservingness and welfare attitude research. Deservingness assessments are made heuristically and could greatly depend on what people know (especially when they are misinformed). Studying this with young people is highly relevant, as the formative years are crucial for welfare attitude formation and change, even later in life. Research with young people provides unique opportunities for disentangling causal mechanisms between welfare-state related knowledge, deservingness and welfare attitudes. Moreover, it could help challenge welfare-state related misinformation and build resilience against disinformation. This thematic review outlines benefits, blind spots, and research trajectories when focusing on knowledge and young people in deservingness and welfare attitude research.

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“…En cuanto al fenómeno de la mis y disinformation, y teniendo en mente la cuestión afectiva, se entiende que las emociones se vuelven clave para el proceso en que opera la circulación de noticias y de informaciones falsas, principalmente por medio de estrategias que construyen las narrativas de manera que apelan a las emociones (Lelo y Fígaro, 2021;Mercenier, 2021). En Tucker et al (2018) se afirma que las emociones son importantes justamente por dificultar que las personas identifiquen la veracidad de una información, como en el caso de la ira.…”

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El papel de las emociones en la construcción y difusión de la desinformación en Twitter. Una comparativa entre Brasil y España.

Simón-Astudillo

Chaves²

2022

Estud. mensaje periodís.

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La polarización afectiva y la desinformación son fenómenos clave en la estrategia de comunicación de Jair Bolsonaro, actual presidente de Brasil, y Santiago Abascal, dirigente de VOX en España. El presente proyecto tiene como objetivo comprender cuál es el papel de las emociones en la construcción y difusión de estas dos problemáticas en los discursos de redes sociales de ambos líderes. Para ello, se parte de un análisis de las emociones y de la mis y disinformation en el que se compara una muestra de 100 tweets de cada político. Los resultados obtenidos indican que, mientras las publicaciones de Abascal destacan por el uso de la ira o el asco ligados a algún tipo de desinformación, el caso de Bolsonaro revela una mayor concentración de emociones agradables, además de que la mayoría de sus tweets no contienen ningún tipo de desinformación. Se pretende que esta investigación sea un marco teórico y metodológico de los estudios de las emociones.

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Teens, Social Media, and Fake News

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news

Fake news on social media: Understanding teens’ (Dis)engagement with news

Mind the gap: Young people and welfare-state related knowledge in deservingness and welfare attitude research

El papel de las emociones en la construcción y difusión de la desinformación en Twitter. Una comparativa entre Brasil y España.

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