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In an era of pervasive misinformation, equipping citizens to counter its spread is increasingly critical. This study examines news authentication—individuals’ proactive verification of news—as a key indicator of resilience to […]
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Social media allow politicians to circumvent the gatekeeping role of news media by providing a platform on which they can communicate directly with and to their electorates. Still, politicians share […]
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Fact-checks successfully persuade people to reject misinformation, but people who are exposed to misinformation rarely read fact-checks. This makes increasing the demand for fact-checking a crucial, understudied aspect of the […]
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Today’s political misinformation has increasingly been created and consumed in visual formats, such as photographs, memes, and videos. Despite the ubiquity of visual media and the growing scholarly attention to […]
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YouTube provides an exhaustive collection of videos that promote conspiracy narratives. Conspiracy narratives deviate from orthodox views and are grounded in non-falsifiable premises. This study aims to understand how people […]
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To what extent do news frames influence public opinion? While a large body of experimental research suggests sizable effects, it is unclear how these findings translate to authentically complex information […]
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Democrats and Republicans have increasingly sorted into homogeneous physical and online spaces and increasingly avoid contact with each other. Yet interventions that attempt to reduce partisan animus often rely on […]
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This study uses an inductive, qualitative approach to examine the perspectives of lower- and middle-class people in the United Kingdom who regularly access little or no professionally-produced news. Findings suggest […]
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Information abundance has become a defining characteristic of digital media environments. Today, people have to deal with a vast amount of news, entertainment and personal communication. This study investigates the […]
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“The book explores the relationship among young people, politics and the media. It presents a novel multidimensional analytical framework – The Circle Line Media Model, which accounts for the importance […]
