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In today’s digital age, online and mobile advertising are of growing importance, with advertising no longer bound to the traditional media industry. Although the advertising industry still has broader access […]
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Worldwide, immunization has been identified as one of the key interventions that can significantly reduce the incidence of illnesses, disability, and even mortality. Even though vaccines are being acknowledged as […]
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How much do factual information and other kinds of frames affect policy attitudes? And whose attitudes are most malleable? I address these questions via two original survey experiments about the […]
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During the 2015 Canadian federal election campaign, a number of candidates withdrew after compromising videos and social media posts they had made in the past were made public online. While […]
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Trust It or Not: Effects of Machine-Learning Warnings in Helping Individuals Mitigate Misinformation
Despite increased interests in the study of fake news, how to aid users’ decision in handling suspicious or false information has not been well understood. To obtain a better understanding […]
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This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of public security propaganda on the Chinese social media network Sina Weibo. A piece of propaganda is disaggregated into two constituent parts: its […]
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Little is known about the ways in which social media, such as Twitter, function as conduits for information related to crises and emergencies. The current study analyzed the content of […]
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We propose a model of motivated skepticism that helps explain when and why citizens are biased-information processors. Two experimental studies explore how citizens evaluate arguments about affirmative action and gun […]
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Countering science denialism. Arguing with the anti-vaxxers/flat earthers/climate change deniers may feel futile, but research just published in Nature Human Behaviour suggests that it’s actually worth it and can be […]
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This article argues that truth is vital to deliberative democracy and to communication as an academic discipline. Our definition of truth is critical realist in nature—that is, it refers to […]
