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Injecting Disinfectants to Kill the Virus: Media Literacy, Information Gathering Sources, and the Moderating Role of Political Ideology on Misperceptions about COVID-19

Mass Communication & Society, 2022
Fake information about COVID-19 continues to circulate widely, including false causes and cures. The current study examined the (a) relationship between information gathering sources and misperceptions; (b) association between literacy variables and ...
Porismita Borah, E. Austin, Yan Su
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Effects of Disinformation Using Deepfake: The Protective Effect of Media Literacy Education

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2021
This research examines (a) the negative impact of disinformation including a deepfake video and (b) the protective effect of media literacy education. We conducted an experiment using a two disinformation message type (deepfake video present vs.
Yoori Hwang, J. Ryu, Se‐Hoon Jeong
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How Media Literacy and Science Media Literacy Predicted the Adoption of Protective Behaviors Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of health communication, 2021
Individuals must navigate complex media environments filled with frequently changing and varyingly credible information to acquire and apply health information during times of uncertainty and danger. A process model tested in two U.S. national surveys in
E. Austin   +4 more
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Media Literacy

2021
The discussion about media literacy today goes far beyond the traditional understanding of media competence. At the same time, very different meanings are attributed to the term. This book brings together 14 contributions on different dimensions of media literacy: in addition to definitions of terms, it addresses media and information literacy in ...
Keel, Guido, Weber, Wibke
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Fact-Checking of Health Information: The Effect of Media Literacy, Metacognition and Health Information Exposure

Journal of health communication, 2021
With the rampant circulation of health information, concerns for the information quality are growing. Thereby, scholars are calling for media literacy as an educative means to cultivate fact-checking behavior among information consumers.
Danielle Ka Lai Lee, Onur Ramazan
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Does Media Literacy Help Identification of Fake News? Information Literacy Helps, but Other Literacies Don’t

American Behavioral Scientist, 2019
Concerns over fake news have triggered a renewed interest in various forms of media literacy. Prevailing expectations posit that literacy interventions help audiences to be “inoculated” against any harmful effects of misleading information.
S. M. Jones-Jang   +2 more
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The media and the literacies: media literacy, information literacy, digital literacy

Media, Culture & Society, 2011
With the advent of digital technologies, awareness of media is acquiring crucial importance. Media literacy, information literacy and digital literacy are the three most prevailing concepts that focus on a critical approach towards media messages.This article gives an overview of the nature of these literacies, which show both similarities to and ...
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Understanding the relationship between new media literacy, communication skills, and democratic tendency: Model development and testing

New Media & Society, 2020
New media provides new sources of information and communication that are crucial for participatory behaviors. Therefore, scholars conceptualize new media literacy (NML) that citizens should have to function successfully in this digital era.
Esra Barut Tuğtekin, M. Koc
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Media Literacy Perspectives

Journal of Communication, 1998
Media literacy education involves cognitive processes used in critical thinking. Media workshops and curricula emphasize moral values (the defensive, inoculation approach), discriminating responsiveness (the critical viewer), antimedia resistance, and consumer revolution. Inductive media literacy programs promote independent critical thinking.
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Social media literacy & adolescent social online behavior in Germany

, 2020
The present study addresses the increased merging of adolescents’ online and social practices and provides a broad and developmental conceptualization, operationalization, and empirical investigation of social media literacy as a central resource in ...
Ruth Festl
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