Why Students Share Misinformation on Social Media: Motivation, Gender, and Study-level Differences

Chen, Xinran; Sin, Sei‐Ching Joanna; Theng, Yin‐Leng; Lee, Chei Sian

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2015.07.003

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“…This study was based on a previous questionnaire model about fake news sharing attitudes and motivations (Chen, Sin, Theng, & Lee, 2015). For this study, such questionnaire was adapted into one-with three main parts-about online news sharing's willingness and motivations.…”

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Online news sharing among Taiwan's middle‐aged and elderly populaces: Influencing factors

Liu

Chang

2019

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Online news sharing has emerged as being influential in how certain news is targeted toward and received by certain audiences. Especially for the middle‐aged and elderly populaces, online fake news' increased presence has made such sharing more complex. With much of Taiwan's middle‐aged and elderly populaces with mobile phones, this study analyzes the influencing factors—namely motivation and willingness ones—of such populaces' online news sharing practices. analyses that were approached via a survey, an adapted questionnaire, and several quantitative analyses.Motivation‐wise, weighed more were communication exchange, knowledge sharing, and social interaction factors. Willingness‐wise, the news' authenticity strength level was the most influential in such populaces' mindsets to share the highlighted online news or not. And differing education levels have differing social interaction plus knowledge sharing‐based motivations. Overall, such results reflect the unique considerations of more information literacy education‐related initiatives for Taiwan's middle‐aged and elderly populaces in online news sharing practices.

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Online news sharing among Taiwan's middle‐aged and elderly populaces: Influencing factors

Liu

Chang

2019

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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“…Ignorance. A driving force of the spreading of false information is that social media users undiscerningly forward false information [5] A reason for the spreading of false information in many cases are inattentive individuals who do not realise that some websites mimic real websites [2]. These false websites are designed to look like the real website but in essence only contain false information.…”

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“…Writers focus on sensational headlines rather than truthful information [13]. Appeal rather than truthfulness drives information [5]. These attractive headlines deceive individuals into sharing certain false information [2].…”

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“…Many argue that the sharing of false information fuel vindictive behaviour among social media users [12]. Some fake news websites or pages are specifically designed to harm a certain user's reputation [5,10]. Social media influencers influence users' emotional and health outcomes [12].…”

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“…This review identify and discuss the factors involved in the sharing and spreading of fake news. The outcome of this review should be to equip users with the abilities to detect and recognise misinformation and also to cultivate a desire to stop the spreading of false information [5].…”

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In this systematic literature review, a study of the factors involved in the spreading of fake news, have been provided. In this review, the root causes of the spreading of fake news are identified to reduce the encouraging of such false information. To combat the spreading of fake news on social media, the reasons behind the spreading of fake news must first be identified. Therefore, this literature review takes an early initiative to identify the possible reasons behind the spreading of fake news. The purpose of this literature review is to identify why individuals tend to share false information and to possibly help in detecting fake news before it spreads.

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Why Students Share Misinformation on Social Media: Motivation, Gender, and Study-level Differences

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