Journal article
News literacy, social media behaviors, and skepticism toward information on social media
Information, communication & society, Vol.24(2), pp.150-166
01/01/2021
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1637445
Abstract
Amid growing concerns about misinformation on social media, scholars, educators, and commentators see news literacy as a means to improve critical media consumption. We use a nationally-representative sample to investigate the relationship between news literacy (NL), seeing and posting news and political content on social media, and skepticism toward information shared on social media. This study finds NL and related orientations contribute to who is seeing and sharing information on social media, with those who are more knowledgeable about media structures seeing and sharing less content. Moreover, those who are more news literate and value NL are more skeptical of information quality on social media. Seeing and posting news and political content on social media are not associated with skepticism. This study suggests that NL plays an important role in shaping perceptions of information shared online.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- News literacy, social media behaviors, and skepticism toward information on social media
- Creators
- Emily K. Vraga - George Mason UniversityMelissa Tully - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Information, communication & society, Vol.24(2), pp.150-166
- DOI
- 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1637445
- ISSN
- 1369-118X
- eISSN
- 1468-4462
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 17
- Grant note
- 000 / University of Iowa
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive); School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984283565202771
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