Selective attention in the news feed: An eye-tracking study on the perception and selection of political news posts on Facebook

Sülflow, Michael; Schäfer, Svenja; Winter, Stephan

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“…Es así cómo las noticias falsas pueden tributar a la dificultad de las personas para someter a escrutinio crítico la información que reciben, convocando al convencimiento de su veracidad y reafirmando persistentemente sus creencias sesgadas. Empíricamente se ha evidenciado que los usuarios de redes sociales prefieren seleccionar publicaciones de noticias que coinciden con sus opiniones previas (Sülflow et al, 2019), sin embargo, la difusión generalizada de noticias falsas tiene el potencial de penetrar en el sistema de creencias incluso cuando son inconsistentes con la ideología política del lector . Conclusiones que son congruentes con la idea de que la repetición de noticias falsas aumenta la legitimidad percibida sobre las mismas, puesto que las creencias suelen ser actualizadas conforme el comportamiento deshonesto se hace más frecuente (Garrett et al, 2016).…”

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Fake news and unfunded beliefs in the post-truth age

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Hermosilla-Urrea

Poblete-Tiznado

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The dissemination of fake news embodies a pressing problem for democracy that is exacerbated by theubiquity of information available on the Internet and by the exploitation of those who, appealing to theemotionality of audiences, have capitalized on the injection of falsehoods into the social fabric. In thisstudy, through a cross-sectional, correlational and non-experimental design, the relationship betweencredibility in the face of fake news and some types of dysfunctional thoughts was explored in a sampleof Chilean university students. The results reveal that greater credibility in fake news is associated withhigher scores of magical, esoteric and naively optimistic thinking, beliefs that would be the meetingpoint for a series of cognitive biases that operate in the processing of information. The highest correlationis found with the paranormal beliefs facet and, particularly, with ideas about the laws of mentalattraction, telepathy and clairvoyance. Significant differences were also found in credibility in fake newsas a function of the gender of the participants, with the female gender scoring higher on average thanthe male gender. These findings highlight the need to promote critical thinking, skepticism and scientificattitude in all segments of society.

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Fake news and unfunded beliefs in the post-truth age

Riquelme

Hermosilla-Urrea

Poblete-Tiznado

et al. 2021

uni

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“…Es así cómo las noticias falsas pueden tributar a la dificultad de las personas para someter a escrutinio crítico la información que reciben, convocando al convencimiento de su veracidad y reafirmando persistentemente sus creencias sesgadas. Empíricamente se ha evidenciado que los usuarios de redes sociales prefieren seleccionar publicaciones de noticias que coinciden con sus opiniones previas (Sülflow et al, 2019), sin embargo, la difusión generalizada de noticias falsas tiene el potencial de penetrar en el sistema de creencias incluso cuando son inconsistentes con la ideología política del lector (Pennycook & Rand, 2019). Conclusiones que son congruentes con la idea de que la repetición de noticias falsas aumenta la legitimidad percibida sobre las mismas, puesto que las creencias suelen ser actualizadas conforme el comportamiento deshonesto se hace más frecuente (Garrett et al, 2016).…”

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In addition to the deliberate efforts to distort or misinform, the unintentional errors detected by the public-and the suspicion that there may be others not identified-have reinforced a skeptical stance among the public about the alleged veracity of the news. In the era of the so-called post-truth, it is no exaggeration to say that the main concern of the social sciences after the public debate has been completely hampered by the spread of false news and the supposed beginning of the collapse of liberal democracies, has been a collective sensation of shock, indignation. and despair at the increased prevalence of false news. This paper focuses on the phenomenon of fake news, its effects in the context of political disputes and regulatory frameworks as an alleged solution. It is intended to demonstrate that digital literacy appears as the most adequate solution to mitigate this problem, without affecting freedom of expression in the public discursive sphere.

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“…B. Hooghe et al 2010;Kruikemeier et al 2018;Maurer 2009;Sülflow et al 2019;Swigger 2012). Allerdings entsteht so auch eine künstliche Untersuchungsumgebung, die kaum noch mit der Realität vergleichbar ist (Campbell und Stanley 1963).…”

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Experimentalforschung in der politischen Kommunikation

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Viele Forschungsfragen im Bereich politischer Kommunikation betreffen Ursache-Wirkungs-Beziehungen, bei denen die Forschung (auch) auf Experimentalstudien angewiesen ist. Der Beitrag definiert zunächst, was Experimentalforschung bedeutet und stellt anschließend die Entwicklung experimenteller Forschung in der politischen Kommunikation vor. Er differenziert dabei Labor-, Feld-, Survey-und Quasiexperimente und diskutiert deren Spezifika. Zuletzt stehen die spezifischen Herausforderungen experimenteller Forschung im Bereich politischer Kommunikation im Fokus.

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Selective attention in the news feed: An eye-tracking study on the perception and selection of political news posts on Facebook

Cited by 71 publications

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Fake news and unfunded beliefs in the post-truth age

Fake news and unfunded beliefs in the post-truth age

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