"You Say Cognitive, I Say Cognitive": Can Misinformation-Informed Interventions Help Reduce Risk for Disordered Eating in Youth? [PDF]
Int J Eat DisordABSTRACT Objective This paper explores how cognitive models from misinformation research can enhance existing interventions for eating disorder (ED) risk, particularly in youth. We argue that frameworks developed to counter belief formation in misinformation offer a novel and underexplored avenue for intervening earlier in the pathway to disordered ...
Georgiou N +3 more
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Examining the Impacts of a Gamified Media Literacy Intervention in Indonesia [PDF]
Journal for DeradicalizationIntegrating popular messaging applications and gamified approaches is an emerging strategy to deploy media literacy interventions at-scale. The present study examines the impacts of a WhatsApp-styled intervention in prebunking mis- and dis-information ...
Michael H. Becker +2 more
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Disinformation in the Digital Age: Climate Change, Media Dynamics, and Strategies for Resilience
PublicationsScientific disinformation has emerged as a critical challenge at the interface of science and society. This paper examines how false or misleading scientific content proliferates across both social media and traditional media and evaluates strategies to ...
Andrea Tomassi +2 more
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Unpacking the Risk of Misinformation: A Communication-Based Critique. [PDF]
Risk AnalABSTRACT A raft of authors argue that society is drowning in a sea of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news. Some claim we are living in a new world disorder, misinformation age, or post‐truth era, fueled in part by social media, influential podcasters, and emerging AI systems.
Balog-Way D, McComas K.
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Applying Misinformation Interventions to Library Instruction and Outreach
Journal of New Librarianship, 2023 This narrative review examines what misinformation interventions—both before misconception (prebunking), and after misconception (debunking)—are effective, and how they can be applied to library information literacy instruction and outreach.
Mandi Goodsett
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Treating a Viral Culture: Using Cultural Competency and Social Informatics to Design Contextualized Information Literacy Efforts for Specific Social Information Cultures [PDF]
, 2023 This chapter proposes a novel theoretical framework, Social Information Cultural Competency (SICC), that may be used for designing contextualized information literacy efforts.
Elkins, Aaron J. +4 more
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Developing Misinformation Immunity: How to Reason-Check Fallacious News in a Human–Computer Interaction Environment [PDF]
, 2023 To counter the fake news phenomenon, the scholarly community has attempted to debunk and prebunk disinformation. However, misinformation still constitutes a major challenge due to the variety of misleading techniques and their continuous updates which ...
Carmi, Elinor +4 more
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Examining the Problem of Misinformation among the Indian Diaspora in Australia [PDF]
, 2023 This report provides a preliminary mapping of the key issues and needs in relation to misinformation and disinformation among the Indian diasporic communities in Australia. The report draws on a roundtable discussion with 15 stakeholders. This roundtable
Mamalipurath, Jasbeer M. (R20584)
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Counterfactual thinking as a prebunking strategy to contrast misinformation on COVID-19
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2022 Given the complexity of contrasting the spread of fake news and conspiracy theories, past research has started investigating some novel pre-emptive strategies, such as inoculation and prebunking. In the present research, we tested whether counterfactual thinking can be employed as a prebunking strategy to prompt critical consideration of fake news ...
M. Bertolotti, P. Catellani
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Covid-19 misinformation: Preparing for future crises [PDF]
, 2022 The goal of this report is to take stock of the early behavioural sciences literature on COVID-19 misinformation. Specifically, this report addresses the following three main questions. (1) Who was most likely to believe or share COVID-19 misinformation?
BRUNS Hendrik +2 more
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