Reposted by Luke Osterritter
Read my latest paper on media literacy, presented at last year's SBP-BRiMS Conference!
Instead of studying whether training helps people detect misinformation, we investigate whether it increases willingness to actively intervene when people see it.
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Promoting Social Corrections: A Media Literacy Intervention for Misinformation on Social Media
This paper examines a new approach to traditional media literacy training: encouraging social media users to engage in social corrections or other countermeasures online when they encounter misinforma...
