Exploring the impact of social media exposure patterns on people’s belief in fake news during COVID-19: A cross-gender study

Wu, Yanhong; Mustafa, Hasrina

doi:10.30935/ojcmt/13117

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“…Depending on the groups that are relevant to an individual, specific sources of information are trusted and therefore sought out, while others are rejected, or discussion partners are avoided or preferred. Furthermore, it can be observed that when information is sought in a targeted manner (intentional exposure), e.g., using a trusted channel, people are more likely to believe it than when they come across it by accident (incidental exposure) (51).…”

Section: Social Normsmentioning

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Predictors of adherence in Austrian employees during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of an online survey

Avian,

Könczöl,

Kubicek

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundSince the beginning of the pandemic in December 2019, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a significant challenge to health care systems throughout the world. The introduction of measures to reduce the incidence of infection had a significant impact on the workplace. Overall, companies played a key and adaptive role in coping with the pandemic.MethodsCross-sectional data from an online-survey of 1,183 employees conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2021 in Austria were used in the analyses. The influence of health beliefs (e.g., perceived severity), modifying factors (e.g., age) and time-dependent factors (e.g., corona fatigue) on individual adherence were evaluated. The conception of the questionnaire was based on the health belief model.ResultsThe majority of respondents were female (58.3%), worked in companies with more than 250 employees (56.6%) and had been to an academic secondary school or had a university degree (58.3%). Overall, employees were adherent to most of the measures at their company (>80%), except for wearing FFP-2 masks when they were travelling in a car with coworkers (59.3, 95%CI 51.3–66.7%). Overall adherence was associated with high ratings for the meaningfulness of testing (OR: 2.06 95%CI: 1.00–4.22; p = 0.049), the extent to which social norms govern behavior (OR: 6.61 95%CI: 4.66–9.36; p < 0.001), lower perceived difficulties associated with the adoption of health-promoting measures (OR: 0.37 95%CI: 0.16–0.82; p = 0.015) and lower corona fatigue (OR: 0.23 95%CI: 0.10–0.52; p < 0.001). Adherence to four single measures was influenced by different predictors. The most important predictors (important for the adherence to three out of four single measures) were social norms and corona fatigue.ConclusionThe importance attached to testing and social norms, as well as lower perceived barriers to health-promoting measures and low levels of corona fatigue all increase overall adherence to Covid-19 protective measures in companies. Strategies to improve adherence should be adapted depending on the aim (to raise overall adherence or adherence to individual measures) and on the group of persons that is being targeted.

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Section: Social Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Predictors of adherence in Austrian employees during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of an online survey

Avian,

Könczöl,

Kubicek

et al. 2024

Front. Public Health

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“…Social media are also known as a platform, where misinformation flourishes and cannot easily be refuted (Sharma et al, 2017;Vraga & Bode, 2017;Wu & Mustafa, 2023). Information on social media suffers from a lack of professional gatekeepers to monitor the content, as the public themselves have become producers of information (Chon & Kim, 2022).…”

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Determinants of social organizational credibility: Towards a formal conceptualization

Botha

2023

ONLINE J COMMUN MEDIA TECHNOL

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Organizational credibility is an important component of organizational survival. The need to build and maintain organizational credibility in the social media context is specifically significant, largely due to the popularity of the medium in the current interactive communication environment. Social media, however, create a challenging environment for accurate information consumption, because it excludes the journalistic gatekeeper, are subject to misinformation and allow for information proliferation by both official and nonofficial users. For organizations to enhance their credibility in the social media context, it is important, firstly, to determine what constitutes social organization credibility. To establish an enhanced understanding of social organizational credibility and to build towards a formal conceptualization, this article quantitatively explored the preliminary identified determinants of social organizational credibility among active social media users. An exploratory factor analysis indicated that social organizational credibility consists of the determinants of trustworthiness, qualified resonance, homophily, personable interaction, informed conversation, and apt social word-of-mouth. Furthermore, the results also highlighted that an organization’s connections (including social media influencers and experts) are also a key determinant of social organizational credibility. This research provides guidance as to how social media users assess an organization’s credibility in the social media context, which could help alleviate the misinformation stigma that is associated with social media as an interactive communication platform. The identified determinants and the conceptualization of social organizational credibility extend existing organizational credibility literature and provide organizations with much needed guidelines to enhance their credibility in the social media context.

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Exploring the impact of social media exposure patterns on people’s belief in fake news during COVID-19: A cross-gender study

Cited by 2 publications

References 107 publications

Predictors of adherence in Austrian employees during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of an online survey

Predictors of adherence in Austrian employees during the COVID-19 pandemic: results of an online survey

Determinants of social organizational credibility: Towards a formal conceptualization

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