misinformation Archive
Misinformation or hard to tell? An eye-tracking study to investigate the effects of food crisis misinformation on social media engagement
Lee, Y.I., Mu, D., Hsu, Y-C., Bart Wojdynski, Matt Binford (current Ph.D. candidate) & Sun, S. (2023, August). “Misinformation or hard to tell? An eye-tracking study to investigate the effects of food crisis […]
Covid-19 Misinformation Spread on Social Media: What, Who and to What Extent?
Itai Himelboim (December, 2021). Covid-19 Misinformation Spread on Social Media: What, Who and to What Extent? Presented at the Bucharest Security Conference Dialogues (via teleconference). Bucharest, Romania.
Misinformation and public opinion of science and health: Approaches, findings, and future directions
Abstract: A summary of the public opinion research on misinformation in the realm of science/health reveals inconsistencies in how the term has been defined and operationalized. A diverse set of […]
Think Before You Share: Beliefs and Emotions that Shaped COVID-19 (Mis)information Vetting and Sharing Intentions among WhatsApp Users in the United Kingdom
Abstract: This study examined how individuals’ emotional and cognitive responses to different shades of truth embedded in health crisis (mis)information (i.e., full falsity vs. partial falsity vs. full truth) might […]
Dynamics of Feedback Behaviours to Social Peers Sharing COVID-19 Misinformation on WhatsApp in Brazil
Santosh Vijaykumar, Daniel Rogerson, Yan Jin, and Mariella Silva de Oliveira Costa. (forthcoming). “Dynamics of Feedback Behaviours to Social Peers Sharing COVID-19 Misinformation on WhatsApp in Brazil.” Abstract: Online COVID-19 misinformation is […]
Challenges for communication professionals: How communication professionals could address fake news and prevent corporations from suffering the attack of fake news
Invited talk by the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. Dr. Meng was invited to share research insights on communication practice […]
Combating the COVID-19 Infodemic Through Evidence-Based Misinformation Management Strategies
Funding Source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration via a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Total Amount: $224,478.00 Project period: 09/30/2021 to 06/29/2024 Project Summary: We propose a multi-phase research project that […]
The Effects of Corrective Communication and Employee Backup on the Effectiveness of Fighting Crisis Misinformation
Abstract: Crisis misinformation, including false information about a crisis or a crisis-stricken organization, has become a fundamental threat to organizational wellbeing. Effective crisis response geared toward fighting crisis misinformation demands […]
Misinformation and public opinion of science and health: Approaches, findings, and future directions.
Abstract: This work summarizes the misinformation literature in the context of science and health. The public opinion work in this space reveals inconsistencies in how the term has been defined […]
The landscape of mis(dis)information about science.
Abstract: This presentation is a broad overview of the issue of misinformation as it relates to public understanding of science and the communication of scientific information with public audiences. The […]