scholarly journals Investigating Differences in Crowdsourced News Credibility Assessment

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (CSCW2) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Md Momen Bhuiyan ◽  
Amy X. Zhang ◽  
Connie Moon Sehat ◽  
Tanushree Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Credibility Assessment ◽  
News Credibility

scholarly journals NudgeCred: Supporting News Credibility Assessment on Social Media Through Nudges

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (CSCW2) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Md Momen Bhuiyan ◽  
Michael Horning ◽  
Sang Won Lee ◽  
Tanushree Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Credibility Assessment ◽  
News Credibility

Online News Credibility Evaluation with Bayes Model

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuehang Si ◽  
Ji Wang ◽  
Xingchen Dong ◽  
Guanlin Wu ◽  
Zhengyi Zhong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online News ◽  
Bayes Model ◽  
News Credibility

What does the crowd think? How online comments and popularity metrics affect news credibility and issue importance

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 3068-3083 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Franklin Waddell
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Indirect Pathway ◽  
Negative Number ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
Construct Accessibility ◽  
Main Model ◽  
Issue Importance

Online comments hold the potential to promote positive deliberative outcomes, although past work has also shown that comments can have undesired effects when the sentiment of the crowd turns negative. Does the presence of comments possibly bolster or interfere with the reception and traditional functions of news media? Informed by the Modality-Agency-Interactivity-Navigability (MAIN) model, an online experiment tested the effect of reader comments (positive vs negative), number of “re-tweets” and “likes” (low vs high), and coverage frequency (infrequent vs frequent) on news credibility and issue importance. Negative reader comments (relative to positive comments) decreased message credibility and issue importance through the sequential indirect pathway of bandwagon perceptions, attention, and construct accessibility. Study results suggest that the traditional functions of news media may be hindered by audience incivility.

Mitigating the consequences of negative news: How constructive journalism enhances self-efficacy and news credibility

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110627
Author(s):  
Christian Staal Bruun Overgaard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Negative News ◽  
News Credibility ◽  
Broaden And Build Theory ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Constructive Journalism

An informed electorate is vital for a well-functioning democracy. Yet many citizens intentionally avoid the news because it evokes negative feelings of disempowerment and distrust. This study ( n = 270) investigated how social media exposure to a new journalistic approach, constructive journalism, influences news consumers. The results showed that constructive social media posts, as compared to negative posts, led to higher levels of positive affect, self-efficacy, and perceived news credibility. In line with the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, the effects on self-efficacy and news credibility were mediated by positive affect. A similar mediating role was found for negative affect, counter to the theoretical expectations. These findings shed new light on the broaden-and-build theory, suggesting parts of it generalize to the context of news exposure on social media. The findings also suggest that constructive journalism may be an effective way to mitigate some of the main drivers of news avoidance in the 21st century.

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