Social media information literacy: Conceptualization and associations with information overload, news avoidance and conspiracy mentality

Heiss, Raffael; Nanz, Andreas; Matthes, Jörg

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2023.107908

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“…Theoretically, information overload represents a suboptimal mental state induced by a heavy load of information (Jiang & Beaudoin, 2016). This mental state, in turn, slows down people's ability to identify valid information (Muhammed T & Mathew, 2022), makes them recoil from seeking or digesting information (Heiss et al, 2023;Jiang & Beaudoin, 2016;Zheng et al, 2022), and results in inaccurate beliefs and misinformed decisions (Laato et al, 2020). Conceptualized as "beliefs about factual matters are not supported by clear evidence and expert opinion" (Nyhan & Reifler, 2010, p. 305), misperceptions have drawn particular attention in misinformation studies because "people who generate or spread misinformation must hold misperceptions of an issue beforehand" (Su et al, 2022b, p. 2).…”

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Linking the pathway from social media health information seeking to health misinformation sharing: A moderated serial mediation model

Luo,

Tang,

Deng

et al. 2023

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Seeking health information from social media has become prominent in recent years. Meanwhile, the proliferation of online health misinformation keeps abreast of this tendency and sparks grave concerns. Drawing upon the S-O-R (Stimulus-Organism-Response) model and the cognitive load theory, the current study aims to clarify the relationship between social media health information seeking and health misinformation sharing with a focus on the Chinese middle-aged or above group, which has been deemed susceptible to online misinformation. Results of structural equation modeling based on an online survey (N = 388) disclosed a serial mediation process with health information overload and misperceptions as sequential mediators. Interestingly, while health misperceptions were positively related to misinformation sharing intention, health information overload was not. Furthermore, as a critical information processing predisposition, the need for cognition only buffered the positive association between information seeking and information overload. Overall, besides proposing a moderated serial mediation model to better comprehend the psychological mechanism underlying health misinformation sharing, this study highlights the importance of zooming into the organism part and the necessity of distinguishing between information overload and misperceptions in the context of health misinformation. Theoretical implications for unraveling online health misinformation sharing and practical implications for boosting immunity against health misinformation among at-risk groups are discussed.

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Linking the pathway from social media health information seeking to health misinformation sharing: A moderated serial mediation model

Luo,

Tang,

Deng

et al. 2023

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“…However, it is also stated that the use of social networks has increased over the past years, users' addictions have increased and the purposes of the use have changed (Alican & Saban, 2013;Demir, 2016;Deniz & Gürültü, 2018;Chyne et al, 2023). Social networks are also considered a new learning and teaching environment that provides users with high-quality resources to support their personal development (Heiss et al, 2023). Therefore, it is stated that students use these networks as online learning environments such as creating, processing and sharing content (text, pictures, videos, etc) and communicating with the other students (Silius et al, 2011).…”

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An Investigation on Secondary Education Students’ Learning Styles and Use of Social Networks

Kenanoğlu

2024

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The aim of this study is to investigate the relations between secondary education students’ learning styles and their use of social networks. The samples of the research designed by relational screening model consist of 1281 students reached by convenient sampling method, one of the non-probability sampling methods. In this study, “Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory” and “The Survey of the use Social networks” were used as data collections tools. Frequency, percentage and chi-square techniques were used for data analyses. As a results of the study, it was found that the most used social networks are Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Google Plus among students. In addition, students use social networks mostly for sharing photo, followed by making friends, sharing videos and playing games respectively. Students who have assimilative learning styles use Facebook, accommodative learning styles use Google Plus, converging styles use Twitter and diverging learning styles use other social networks. Moreover, it was found that students who has accommodative and assimilative learning styles use social networks to share videos, diverging learning styles use social networks to share photos and converging learning styles use social networks to make friends. However, it wasn’t found statistically significance difference between the students’ learning styles and both preferring social networks and the purpose of using them. In the study, it was investigated the relation between students’ learning style based on Kolb’s experiential learning theory and the use of social networks. Apart from Kolb’s Model, it is recommended that some other models like Myers and Briggs’ type indicator model, Lawrence’s learning type model, Fleming and Mill’s learning style model (VARK), Felder and Silverman’s learning style model or Reinert’s learning styles model can be preferred by authors to reveal the relationship with the use of social networks. Thus, the relationships between learning styles, one of the most important individual differences that facilitate learning, and social networks can be revealed in more detail and contribute to the literature on integrating social networking into educational environments.

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“…Humans as social beings need to communicate especially in daily affairs. Humans can order things, ask for news, and also express their emotions by using language (Gafaranga, 2021;Heiss et al, 2023;Siahaan et al, 2023). There are many languages in the world that people used.…”

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Pragmatics Analysis on Students’ Conversation at Grade Eleven of State of Vocational High School 1 Pematangsiantar

Simanjuntak,

Herman,

E Silalahi

et al. 2023

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This research was intended to find out the kinds of maxim on students’ conversation at grade eleven of State of Vocational High School (SMK Negeri) 1 Pematangsiantar. This research used descriptive qualitative which the data were obtained through students' conversations about expressing opinions. The subject of this research was the students of SMK Negeri 1 Pematangsiantar at grade eleven in the academic year 2023/2024. The instrument of this research was mobile phone, because the classroom interaction flows quickly, mobile phone was needed to help capturing students’ conversation. The data were collected by using the voice recordings and the transcripts. The data were analyzed based on students' conversations, then classified based on the maxims used in the conversation into each type of maxim, the maxims are then calculated to find the dominant maxim. The result of this research showed that the students used maxim of quantity (18,8%), maxim of quality (21,9%), maxim of relation (6,3%) and maxim of manner (18,8%). It showed that the students’ conversation dominant used maxim of quality in their conversation to express opinions. Keywords: Pragmatic Analysis, Maxim on Coversation, Expressing Opinions

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Social media information literacy: Conceptualization and associations with information overload, news avoidance and conspiracy mentality

Cited by 15 publications

References 65 publications

Linking the pathway from social media health information seeking to health misinformation sharing: A moderated serial mediation model

Linking the pathway from social media health information seeking to health misinformation sharing: A moderated serial mediation model

An Investigation on Secondary Education Students’ Learning Styles and Use of Social Networks

Pragmatics Analysis on Students’ Conversation at Grade Eleven of State of Vocational High School 1 Pematangsiantar

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