Navigating the infodemic: A qualitative study of university students' information strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Navigating the infodemic: A qualitative study of university students' information strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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DOI：
10.1177/20552076241228695
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发表时间：
2024-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Webb, Adam
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作者：
Gies, Lieve;Gogoi, Mayuri;Bayliss, Christopher D.;Pareek, Manish;Webb, Adam
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我们旨在研究大学生在COVID-19疫情及相关信息流行期间为审查信息而制定的策略。我们对34名学生进行了半结构化访谈，使用了一个试点主题指南，探索了大流行经验的几个领域，包括学生使用媒体的情况。按照主题方法对成绩单进行了归纳分析。高阶主题是在两位作者进行编码练习后最终确定的。与会者敏锐地意识到大流行期间的错误信息。他们对传统新闻媒体（起源于互联网之前的印刷和广播媒体）关于大流行病的可靠信息的评级高于社交媒体。然而，引人注目的是，并非所有传统媒体都自动受到信任，也并非所有社交媒体都不受信任。与会者确定了一套机制，以确定一条信息是否真实和准确。这些机制有四个主要焦点：（1）来源，（2）信息，（3）个人媒体素养和（4）他人的可信度。尽管参与者对错误信息有着严格的认识，但他们避免发布任何与这一流行病有关的信息，因为担心成为网上滥用的目标。除了强调媒介素养的作用外，我们的研究还强调了培养媒体信心的重要性。我们将媒体信心定义为数字媒体用户质疑和询问可疑或不准确信息的能力，因为他们知道有足够的监管机制来遏制滥用，拖钓和恐吓。
We aimed to study the strategies which university students developed for vetting information during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated infodemic. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 34 students, using a piloted topic guide which explored several areas of pandemic experiences, including students’ use of media. Transcripts were analysed inductively following the thematic approach. Higher order themes were finalised following a coding exercise undertaken by two of the authors. Participants were acutely aware of misinformation during the pandemic. They rated legacy news media (print and broadcast media with pre-Internet origins) higher than social media for reliable information about the pandemic. However, strikingly, not all legacy media were automatically trusted and not all social media were uniformly distrusted. Participants identified a set of mechanisms for establishing whether a piece of information was truthful and accurate. These mechanisms had four main focal points: (1) the source, (2) the message, (3) individual media literacy and (4) the trustworthiness of others. Despite possessing a critical awareness of misinformation, participants avoided posting anything in relation to the pandemic for fear of becoming the target of online abuse. In addition to underscoring the role of media literacy, our research foregrounds the need to attend to the importance of fostering media confidence. We define media confidence as the ability of digital media users to challenge and interrogate questionable or inaccurate information safe in the knowledge that there are adequate regulatory mechanisms in place to curb abuse, trolling and intimidation.
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