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A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India

Guess, Andrew M. ; Lerner, Michael ; Lyons, Benjamin ; Montgomery, Jacob M. ; Nyhan, Brendan ; Reifler, Jason ; Sircar, Neelanjan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2020-07, Vol.117 (27), p.15536-15545 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United States: National Academy of Sciences

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    A digital media literacy intervention increases discernment between mainstream and false news in the United States and India
  • Autor: Guess, Andrew M. ; Lerner, Michael ; Lyons, Benjamin ; Montgomery, Jacob M. ; Nyhan, Brendan ; Reifler, Jason ; Sircar, Neelanjan
  • Assuntos: Adolescent ; Adult ; Communication ; Digital broadcasting ; Digital media ; Elections ; Female ; Humans ; India ; Internet ; Internet-Based Intervention ; Literacy ; Male ; Media literacy ; Middle Aged ; News ; Rural areas ; Social Media - statistics & numerical data ; Social Sciences ; Surveys and Questionnaires - statistics & numerical data ; Technology - education ; United States ; Young Adult
  • É parte de: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2020-07, Vol.117 (27), p.15536-15545
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    Edited by David G. Rand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Margaret Levi April 28, 2020 (received for review November 20, 2019)
    Author contributions: A.M.G., M.L., B.L., J.M.M., B.N., J.R., and N.S. designed research, performed research, analyzed data, and wrote the paper.
    1A.M.G., M.L., B.L., J.M.M., B.N., J.R., and N.S. contributed equally to this work.
  • Descrição: Widespread belief in misinformation circulating online is a critical challenge for modern societies. While research to date has focused on psychological and political antecedents to this phenomenon, few studies have explored the role of digital media literacy shortfalls. Using data from preregistered survey experiments conducted around recent elections in the United States and India, we assess the effectiveness of an intervention modeled closely on the world’s largest media literacy campaign, which provided “tips” on how to spot false news to people in 14 countries. Our results indicate that exposure to this intervention reduced the perceived accuracy of both mainstream and false news headlines, but effects on the latter were significantly larger. As a result, the intervention improved discernment between mainstream and false news headlines among both a nationally representative sample in the United States (by 26.5%) and a highly educated online sample in India (by 17.5%). This increase in discernment remained measurable several weeks later in the United States (but not in India). However, we find no effects among a representative sample of respondents in a largely rural area of northern India, where rates of social media use are far lower.
  • Editor: United States: National Academy of Sciences
  • Idioma: Inglês
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