Literacy Concepts as an Intervention Strategy for Improving Fake News Knowledge, Detection Skills, and Curtailing the Tendency to Share Fake News in Nigeria

Apuke, Oberiri Destiny; Omar, Bahiyah; Tunca, Elif Asude

doi:10.1080/0145935x.2021.2024758

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“…Promoting solid knowledge in a specific domain is an important aim in educational settings to ensure future problem solving (Kirschner & Stoyanov, 2018;Tricot & Sweller, 2014). The importance of knowledge was also pointed out by researchers investigating how education can address the problem of fake news (Apuke et al, 2022;Barzilai & Chinn, 2020). Previous research reported that pre-service teachers lack the necessary knowledge to teach about fake news (e.g., Manfra & Holmes, 2020).…”

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“…Based on these instructional characteristics of the game and previous results reported on the effectiveness of the game, we assume that Escape Fake can also promote pre-service teachers learning about fake news. In terms of learning outcomes, we follow the work of Buchner (2022Buchner ( , 2023 based on Apuke et al (2022), Barzilai and Chinn (2020), Roozenbeek and van der Linden (2019b), and Yang et al (2021) and investigate the impact of playing the game on four learning objectives:…”

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Can pre-service teachers learn about fake news by playing an augmented reality escape game?

Buchner,

Höfler

2024

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Fake news is increasingly becoming a major problem for global social coexistence, for example by undermining trust in democracies. There is a consensus that educational institutions need to respond and prepare students to recognize fake news. Teachers have a central role to play in preparing students and therefore need to learn about fake news during their studies. Previous research has shown that games are particularly effective for learning about fake news, but the group of pre-service teachers has not yet been investigated. The aim of this study is to address this gap by examining whether pre-service teachers can learn about fake news using the augmented reality escape game <i>Escape Fake</i>. To investigate this question, a pre-/post-test design was conducted with 45 pre-service teachers (four males, mean age=22.59 years, standard deviation=1.80). The results show that after playing <i>Escape Fake</i>, the pre-service teachers demonstrate significantly higher knowledge about fake news, are significantly more critical towards online information, and are significantly more confident in being able to recognize fake news in the future. However, playing the game did not promote the ability to discern real from false information. The paper discusses reasons for this finding and suggests ways to improve learning with the game. Implications and future research needs are discussed.

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Can pre-service teachers learn about fake news by playing an augmented reality escape game?

Buchner,

Höfler

2024

CONT ED TECHNOLOGY

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“…The terminology “information overload” is commonly used to describe obtaining too much information ( Wang et al, 2022 ). When participants were exposed to more information than their information processing capabilities to handle, they experience information overload ( Apuke et al, 2022 ). Recent research has discovered that large quantities of information may be disruptive and also have a strong impudence on productivity as well as decision making ( Ramzan et al, 2022 ).…”

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Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance

Zhang¹,

Akhter

Nassani

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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In this global village, easy access to news has resulted in many changes in the preferences and patterns of people for accessing news. Therefore, the present study has attempted to investigate the effects of news relevance, perceived quality, and news overloading on people’s news curation preferences. This study has also examined the mediating role of news avoidance between the news relevance, perceived quality, and news overloading on the news curation. A quantitative technique has been employed to check the relationships proposed in the study. A sample size of 217 has been analyzed to check these hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that news relevance has a negative impact while news overload positively and significantly impact the news curation. However, the news avoidance only mediated the relationship of news quality and news curation. Theoretically, the study has contributed to the literature of journalism and social media by finding that relevance of news has a negative significant impact on the news curation behavior of people, such that if they do not find the news relevant, they happily curate it. Practically, the study implies that the people are more prone to the quality of news rather than quantity; therefore, it is important for the news agencies to ensure that they produce and deliver the quality based news considering the accuracy to penetrate the Theoretic lass level.

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“…De ce fait, elle engage les communicants à s'adapter aux codes langagiers des réseaux (Cougnon, 2015) et aux pratiques qui se centrent particulièrement sur l'image (Ståhl et Kaihovirta, 2019). Cette place importante accordée au monde digital dans la communication des jeunes entraîne également la nécessité que les jeunes soient suffisamment formés à la compréhension des informations et au décryptage des celles-ci, notamment pour détecter les informations erronées (Apuke et al, 2022), encore appelées fakes news. Conséquemment, la littéracie médiatique (Fastrez, 2010) de chaque jeune dépendra fortement de son capital culturel (Way & Malvini-Redden, 2017) et de la qualité de sa formation (parentale, scolaire, par les pairs…) et pourra entraîner une fracture numérique (Wijetunga, 2014 ;Pedrozo, 2013) importante.…”

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Jeunes, Communication & Climat. Diversité des enjeux climatiques auprès des 15-24 ans en Belgique

Ducol¹,

Anciaux²,

Catellani³

et al. 2022

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Comment les jeunes Belges envisagent-ils leur avenir ? Fil conducteur de cette recherche, cette question nous permet d'interroger les perspectives d'une jeunesse diverse. Ces perspectives touchent à la fois leur compréhension et leur perception des phénomènes associés aux changements climatiques, leurs manières de s'informer sur la question, ainsi que leur vision concernant l'éducation qu'ils ont reçue et l'avenir que leur réserve le marché du travail.Pour appréhender empiriquement ces questions, une double enquête de terrain a été conduite. Une première partie quantitative a permis de dégager des tendances de pratiques et de perceptions des différentes catégories de jeunes prétriés selon des critères sociodémographiques. Une seconde partie qualitative a permis d'affiner ces données grâce à des focus groups sondant l'opinion des jeunes Belges les plus précaires. Ce travail de terrain confirme la pertinence de considérer une grande diversité au sein du groupe social « jeune » (15-24 ans), puisque des différences considérables sont observées, notamment entre les catégories socioéconomiques, mais aussi entre les classes d'âge.Pour dépasser ces constats et approfondir l'analyse segmentée des jeunes, des personae ont été constitués. Ainsi, sept profils de jeunes exclusifs les uns des autres sont dégagés, non pas dans l’objectif de ranger les jeunes dans des cases, mais pour proposer des solutions personnalisées en fonction de leurs différentes pratiques et valeurs.Les résultats de cette recherche permettent la formulation de recommandations concernant aussi bien les perspectives de communication climatique à l'égard des jeunes que les perspectives politiques à mettre en oeuvre pour encourager leur participation. Ces recommandations sont formulées de manière générale, mais aussi spécifiquement pour chaque persona identifiée. Enfin, les recommandations émanant autant des jeunes eux-mêmes que des experts ayant réalisé l’étude.

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Literacy Concepts as an Intervention Strategy for Improving Fake News Knowledge, Detection Skills, and Curtailing the Tendency to Share Fake News in Nigeria

Cited by 23 publications

References 48 publications

Can pre-service teachers learn about fake news by playing an augmented reality escape game?

Can pre-service teachers learn about fake news by playing an augmented reality escape game?

Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance

Jeunes, Communication & Climat. Diversité des enjeux climatiques auprès des 15-24 ans en Belgique

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Literacy Concepts as an Intervention Strategy for Improving Fake News Knowledge, Detection Skills, and Curtailing the Tendency to Share Fake News in Nigeria

Cited by 23 publications

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Can pre-service teachers learn about fake news by playing an augmented reality escape game?

Can pre-service teachers learn about fake news by playing an augmented reality escape game?

Impact of News Overload on Social Media News Curation: Mediating Role of News Avoidance

Jeunes, Communication &amp; Climat. Diversité des enjeux climatiques auprès des 15-24 ans en Belgique

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