Relationship between misinformation spreading behaviour and true/false judgments and literacy: an empirical analysis of COVID-19 vaccine and political misinformation in Japan
Relationship between misinformation spreading behaviour and true/false judgments and literacy: an empirical analysis of COVID-19 vaccine and political misinformation in Japan
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错误信息传播行为与真/假判断和识字率之间的关系：日本 COVID-19 疫苗和政治错误信息的实证分析
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10.1108/gkmc-12-2022-0287
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2023
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Tanihara Tsukasa
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作者：
Yamaguchi Shinichi;Tanihara Tsukasa
目的近年来，虚假信息的社会影响日益加剧。本研究的目的是阐明错误信息在社会中传播的机制。设计/方法/途径使用经过实际事实核查的新冠肺炎疫苗和政治错误信息对调查数据进行Logit模型分析，检验以下两个假设：相信某些错误信息是真的的人比不相信其真实性的人更有可能传播它；媒体和信息素养较低的人比媒体和信息素养较高的人更有可能传播错误信息。发现这两个假设得到了支持，而且无论传播方式是社交媒体还是直接对话，这一趋势总体上都是强劲的。社会影响作者从结果中得出了以下四点启示：政府需要进一步推动媒体信息素养教育；平台服务提供商应该考虑促进意识到错误信息的人发布和展示帖子的机制；应该进一步促进事实核查；人们应该基于这样的假设来获取信息，即相信某些错误信息的人倾向于更多地传播它。原创性/价值首先，它定量地澄清了错误信息、真假判断和传播行为之间的关系。第二，它定量地阐明了识字与错误信息传播行为之间的关系。第三，它对传播行为进行了全面分析，包括社交媒体以外的传播行为。
PurposeIn recent years, the social impact of misinformation has intensified. The purpose of this study is to clarify the mechanism by which misinformation spreads in society.Design/methodology/approachTesting the following two hypotheses by a logit model analysis of survey data using actual fact-checked COVID-19 vaccine and political misinformation: people who believe that some misinformation is true are more likely to spread it than those who do not believe in its truthfulness; people with lower media and information literacy are more likely to spread misinformation than people with higher media and information literacy.FindingsThe two hypotheses are supported, and the trend was generally robust regardless of the method, whether the means of diffusion was social media or direct conversation.Social implicationsThe authors derived the following four implications from the results: governments need to further promote media information literacy education; platform service providers should consider mechanisms to facilitate the spread and display of posts by people who are aware of misinformation; fact-checking should be further promoted; people should acquire information based on the assumption that people who believe in some misinformation tend to spread it more.Originality/valueFirst, it quantitatively clarifies the relationship between misinformation, true/false judgements and dissemination behaviour. Second, it quantitatively clarifies the relationship between literacy and misinformation dissemination behaviour. Third, it conducts a comprehensive analysis of diffusion behaviours, including those outside of social media.