An Investigation of Misinformation Harms Related to Social Media During Humanitarian Crises
An Investigation of Misinformation Harms Related to Social Media During Humanitarian Crises
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对人道主义危机期间社交媒体相关错误信息危害的调查
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10.1007/978-981-15-3817-9_10
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2020
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Tran T., Valecha R.
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Tran T., Valecha R.
在人道主义危机中，人们面临危险，需要在短时间内获得大量信息。这种需求为谣言、假新闻或骗局等错误信息在受影响社区内外传播创造了基础。它可能是带有未经证实的细节的无意的错误信息，或者是为了欺骗人们而故意制造的虚假信息。它导致的信息危害可能会产生严重的短期或长期后果。尽管一些研究人员已经创建了错误信息检测系统和算法，检查了相关方的角色，检查了错误信息传播和说服人们的方式，但很少有人关注错误信息危害的类型。在人道主义危机的背景下，我们提出了信息危害的分类，并评估了人们对危害的风险感知。这样的分类可以作为未来研究的基础，定量地衡量具体情况下的危害。此外，相关人员的看法也通过两个维度进行了调查：发生的可能性和危害的影响水平。
During humanitarian crises, people face dangers and need a large amount of information in a short period of time. Such need creates the base for misinformation such as rumors, fake news or hoaxes to spread within and outside the affected community. It could be unintended misinformation with unconfirmed details, or intentional disinformation created to trick people for benefits. It results in information harms that can generate serious short term or long-term consequences. Although some researchers have created misinformation detection systems and algorithms, examined the roles of involved parties, examined the way misinformation spreads and convinces people, very little attention has been paid to the types of misinformation harms. In the context of humanitarian crises, we propose a taxonomy of information harms and assess people’s perception of risk regarding the harms. Such a taxonomy can act as the base for future research to quantitatively measure the harms in specific contexts. Furthermore, perceptions of related people were also investigated in four specifically chosen scenarios through two dimensions: Likelihood of occurrence and Level of impacts of the harms.