(Mis) informed about what? What it means to be a science-literate citizen in a digital world

EL Howell, D Brossard - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - pnas.org
Science literacy is often held up as crucial for avoiding science-related misinformation and
enabling more informed individual and collective decision-making. But research has not yet …

Cyberhate: A review and content analysis of intervention strategies

C Blaya - Aggression and violent behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of intervention programmes against cyberhate. Over the last
decade, the preoccupation over the use of electronic means of communication as a tool to …

Generative language models and automated influence operations: Emerging threats and potential mitigations

JA Goldstein, G Sastry, M Musser, R DiResta… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Generative language models have improved drastically, and can now produce realistic text
outputs that are difficult to distinguish from human-written content. For malicious actors …

Social media literacy: A conceptual framework

H Cho, J Cannon, R Lopez, W Li - New media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Concerns over the harmful effects of social media have directed public attention to media
literacy as a potential remedy. Current conceptions of media literacy are frequently based on …

Does media literacy help identification of fake news? Information literacy helps, but other literacies don't

SM Jones-Jang, T Mortensen… - American behavioral …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

The promises, challenges, and futures of media literacy

M Bulger, P Davison - Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2018 - digitalcommons.uri.edu
Media literacy has become a center of gravity for countering fake news, and a diverse array
of stakeholders–from educators to legislators, philanthropists to technologists–have pushed …

Associations between time spent using social media and internalizing and externalizing problems among US youth

KE Riehm, KA Feder, KN Tormohlen, RM Crum… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Social media use may be a risk factor for mental health problems in adolescents.
However, few longitudinal studies have investigated this association, and none have …

Combatir la desinformación con alfabetización mediática: análisis de las tendencias en la Unión Europea

CS Chalezquer, R Salaverría - Revista latina de comunicación …, 2023 - dialnet.unirioja.es
Introducción: La desinformación se ha convertido en un problema clave para las
sociedades democráticas contemporáneas. Para contrarrestar esta amenaza, las …

Separating truth from lies: Comparing the effects of news media literacy interventions and fact-checkers in response to political misinformation in the US and …

M Hameleers - Information, communication & society, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Although previous research has offered important insights into the consequences of mis-and
disinformation and the effectiveness of corrective information, we know markedly less about …

Mitigating infodemics: The relationship between news exposure and trust and belief in COVID-19 fake news and social media spreading

J Melki, H Tamim, D Hadid, M Makki, J El Amine, E Hitti - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Misinformation surrounding COVID-19 poses a global public health problem
that adversely affects governments' abilities to mitigate the disease and causes accidental …