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During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people sought information from websites and social media. Understanding the extent to which these sources were trus…
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Across two studies, 164 7- to 10-year-old children (80 girls, 84 boys) were asked to evaluate both Google’s and a person’s ability to answer questions about past, present, and future […]
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Common to scholarly analyses of the “digital revolution” is their inclination to deploy technology—the platforms, their affordances, the virtual spaces they create—as the main entry into evaluations of digital media’s […]
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This study examines how exposure to counter- and pro-attitudinal fact-checking messages impacts the fact-checker’s perceived quality and ideological leaning. In a well-powered and pre-registered survey experiment conducted during the 2021 […]
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Journalism quality has been examined primarily through a normative lens and investigated through descriptive methods that overlook news consumers’ actual responses to it. Taking a more empirical, media-effects approach, we […]
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This scoping review contributes an overview of recent research on effective media literacy interventions and recommendations relevant to cultivating critical mis/disinformation literacies for adults. The review examines articles published between […]
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This study asks the question “to what extent do electronic election systems affect perceptions of election legitimacy in the U.S.?” The use of these systems is growing in the U.S. […]
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While conspiracy theories are prominent on social media, they also increase audience engagement. It is thus unclear how many creators “believe” the theories they espouse, especially when they are outrageous […]
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This study explores the associations between the media, media-related political variables, and conspiracy thinking, utilizing representative data from 2,340 Czech adults. Trust in journalists is a pivotal media factor related […]
