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Communication
Joelle Swart
Summary: Young people's increasing reliance on social media for news necessitates higher levels of news literacy. However, possessing news literacy does not guarantee its application in practice. This article examines the strategies and tactics young people employ on social media to access, evaluate, and engage with news. It argues that news literacy can be seen as an expression of situated knowledge, shaped by platform and social contexts.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
(2023)
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Communication
Michael Chan
Summary: This study, based on an online survey of citizens in Hong Kong, found that higher news literacy was associated with better ability to discern real and fake news, engagement in news authentication behaviors, and searching online to verify fake news. The results highlight the normative benefits of high dispositional news literacy in mitigating the effects of online disinformation.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Benjamin A. Lyons, Jacob M. Montgomery, Andrew M. Guess, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler
Summary: Overconfidence can lead to biased judgment of true and false news, affecting behavior and beliefs; individuals who are overconfident are more likely to visit untrustworthy websites, fail to distinguish between true and false claims, and are more willing to share false content.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Tahereh Dehdarirad, Kalle Karlsson
Summary: This study investigates whether open access can assist in the broader dissemination of scientific research in Climate Action. The findings suggest that open access papers in Climate Action tend to have a news count advantage compared to non-open access papers. The study also reveals that the impact of open access on dissemination varies across different Climate Action topics.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kevin Aslett, Andrew M. Guess, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker
Summary: As the primary arena for viral misinformation shifts toward transnational threats, researchers are searching for scalable countermeasures compatible with transparency and free expression. A field experiment showed that embedding source credibility labels in social feeds and search results had no significant impact on the attitudes and behaviors of general users, but it slightly improved news diet quality for heavy consumers of misinformation.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ronald E. Robertson, Jon Green, Damian J. Ruck, Katherine Ognyanova, Christo Wilson, David Lazer
Summary: If popular online platforms systematically expose their users to partisan and unreliable news, it could lead to societal issues such as increased political polarization. The 'echo chamber' and 'filter bubble' debates criticize how user choice and algorithmic curation guide individuals to different online sources of information. This study aimed to address the gaps in research by conducting a two-wave study that measured exposure and engagement on Google Search during the 2018 and 2020 US elections. The findings suggest that users' own choices, rather than algorithmic curation, drive exposure to and engagement with partisan or unreliable news on Google Search.
Article
Communication
Mario Haim, Johannes Breuer, Sebastian Stier
Summary: Research shows that political knowledge and interest greatly influence online news exposure, while some individuals rely on specific sources passively under the belief of news finding them. Compared to the NFM dimensions, political knowledge and interest are stronger predictors of online news exposure, shaping a confluence of traditional factors and interpersonal processes.
SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jessica C. O'Keeffe, Meg Constable, Janice Chiang, Margaret Somerville, Arvind Yerramilli, Ross Nolan, Greg Weeks, Daniel P. O'Brien
Summary: Molnupiravir, available in Australia through PBS, was administered to 30 ineligible healthcare workers with mild-moderate COVID-19. The treatment was well-tolerated and showed promising results, with a shorter duration of illness and low transmission rates within households.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Maxine Maretzki, Rachael Geiger, Jane A. Buxton
Summary: This scoping review examines changes in service access for Canadian individuals experiencing homelessness (IEH) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results indicate that access to social and healthcare resources for Canadian IEH was generally reduced during the pandemic. However, there were also positive changes such as improved coordination of services and an increase in outreach services. The study highlights the need to scale up positive changes in service access and improve digital technology access for IEH.
Article
Communication
Sora Park, Jee Young Lee
Summary: There is an increasing interest in how incidental news exposure on social media affects trust in news. This study analyzes Facebook news users in Australia, the UK, and the US (n = 1,296) and finds that while trust in general news is similar for intentional and incidental news users, incidental exposure has a negative effect on trust in news on social media. This negative effect is more pronounced among social media news users who rely on it as their primary news source. The findings suggest the importance of understanding the context of incidental versus intentional exposure to fully comprehend the impact of incidental exposure on trust in news.
SOCIAL MEDIA + SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Duncan J. Watts, David M. Rothschild, Markus Mobius
Summary: Since the 2016 US presidential election, there has been significant concern over the deliberate spread of misinformation online, especially on social media, and its potential effects on public opinion, political polarization, and democratic decision making. However, recent research has suggested that the prevalence and consumption of fake news is actually quite low compared to other types of news and news-relevant content. This highlights the importance of understanding misinformation in a broader context, including biased and misleading information produced or amplified by mainstream news organizations.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sarah Bauerle Bass, Maureen Wilson-Genderson, Dina T. Garcia, Aderonke A. Akinkugbe, Maghboeba Mosavel
Summary: Understanding the factors associated with vaccine hesitancy among adults in three U.S. cities is crucial for public health officials to design effective communication strategies to improve vaccine uptake. This study found that race, income, attention to COVID-19 news, satisfaction with health, and healthcare access were all associated with vaccine hesitancy.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Communication
Kim Borg, Jo Lindsay, Jim Curtis
Summary: The study highlights the importance of establishing new social norms for the success of plastic reduction policies, using the example of the 2018 Australian supermarket plastic bag ban. By analyzing the interaction between news media and social media, the research shows how social norms related to new policies are created and expressed in the current media landscape, with social media providing a platform for challenging dominant narratives presented by traditional news media.
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Economics
Sandeep Mazumder
Summary: Newspaper references to the Fed can help close the gap between consumer and professional inflation forecasts, but this effect varies depending on the newspaper and how news coverage is measured.
ECONOMIC MODELLING
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xiao Zhang, Shamim Akhter, Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Mohamed Haffar
Summary: In this study, the impacts of news relevance, perceived quality, and news overloading on people's news curation preferences were investigated. The study also examined the mediating role of news avoidance between these factors and news curation. The findings indicated that news relevance had a negative impact, while news overload had a positive and significant impact on news curation. However, news avoidance only mediated the relationship between news quality and news curation. The study contributes to the literature by highlighting the negative impact of news relevance and the importance of quality in news curation.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Cell & Tissue Engineering
Christen Rachul, Timothy Caulfield
STEM CELL REVIEWS AND REPORTS
(2015)
Article
Surgery
Christen M. Rachul, Ivona Percec, Timothy Caulfield
AESTHETIC SURGERY JOURNAL
(2015)
Article
Cell & Tissue Engineering
Christen Rachul, Timothy Caulfield
STEM CELL REVIEWS AND REPORTS
(2015)
Article
Respiratory System
Christen Rachul, Maeghan Toews, Timothy Caulfield
JOURNAL OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS
(2016)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Christen Rachul, John E. J. Rasko, Timothy Caulfield
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Nola M. Ries, Christen Rachul, Timothy Caulfield
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY
(2011)
Article
Cell & Tissue Engineering
Ubaka Ogbogu, Christen Rachul, Timothy Caulfield
REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
(2013)
Article
Cell & Tissue Engineering
Amy Zarzeczny, Timothy Caulfield, Ubaka Ogbogu, Peter Bell, Valorie A. Crooks, Kalina Kamenova, Zubin Master, Christen Rachul, Jeremy Snyder, Maeghan Toews, Sonja Zoeller
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Christen Rachul, Benjamin Collins, Mariam Ahmed, George Cai
Summary: Independent learning opportunities in health professions education can be challenging due to structured curricula, but structured assignments can help students develop skills for self-directed learning. However, there is a lack of guidelines for designing effective assignments to foster independence in health professions education.
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Alessandro R. Marcon, Christen Rachul, Timothy Caulfield
Summary: The study found that individuals discussing their ancestry DNA testing results on YouTube tended to clarify, confirm, question, and re-evaluate their previously held conceptions of racial/ethnic identities, with reactions being more positive than negative. Ancestry testing and personal social media accounts were commonly promoted in the videos, indicating a prevalence of biotechnological hype and scarcity of critiques.
NEW GENETICS AND SOCIETY
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Christen Rachul, Alessandro R. Marcon, Benjamin Collins, Timothy Caulfield
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Education & Educational Research
Christen Rachul, Lara Varpio
ADVANCES IN HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION
(2020)
Article
Business
Christen Rachul
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
(2019)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Christen M. Rachul, Nola M. Ries, Timothy Caulfield
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-REVUE CANADIENNE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE
(2011)