RAPID: Measuring Information Consumption and Beliefs During the Covid-19 Pandemic.

RAPID：衡量 Covid-19 大流行期间的信息消费和信念。

• 批准号: 2029610
• 负责人: Joshua Tucker
• 金额: $ 19.96万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029610&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Measuring; Information; Consumption; Beliefs

In recent months, the global COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a surge in pandemic-related false information, exposing shortcomings in the diffusion of high quality information through online networks and in our understanding of who is most susceptible to false and misleading information during times of crisis. Important questions remain about who is able to discriminate low-quality information from high-quality information related to COVID-19 and who is most vulnerable to low-quality information during the pandemic. This project investigates susceptibility to false and misleading information both in the time of, and related to, the COVID-19 pandemic. As government agencies, civic organizations, and for-profit companies work together to combat coronavirus-related false information, an understanding of who is most likely to believe false information — and mistrust true information — is necessary for crafting and distributing targeted public health communications. Social and behavioral literature offer competing insights into how the current epidemic might impact people’s ability to evaluate the veracity of information. This project will test a series of theoretically informed hypotheses about why we might expect people’s ability to correctly identify the veracity of information to change in the time of COVID-19, and why we might expect people’s ability to discern the veracity of COVID-19 related information to differ from their ability to ascertain the veracity of non-Covid-19 related information. By sourcing real time news articles to crowds of ordinary citizens as well as professional fact checkers over a multi-month period, this project will investigate the individual-level determinants of susceptibility to false information in real time, whether ordinary citizens can be employed to crowdsource the labeling of high- and low-quality information, and whether crowdsourced fact-checking can reduce the prevalence of false information in the information ecosystem.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

近几个月来，与大流行有关的虚假信息激增，在危机时期，与谁最容易受到虚假和误导性信息的理解，全球COVID-19大流行已经累积了。关于谁能够将低质量信息与与Covid-19有关的高质量信息以及在大流行期间最容易受到低质量信息的高质量信息的重要问题仍然存在。该项目调查了在COVID-19-19大流行期间和与之相关的错误和误导性信息的敏感性。随着政府机构，公民组织和营利性公司共同努力以与冠状病毒相关的虚假信息作斗争，对谁最有可能相信虚假信息以及不信任的真实信息的理解对于制作和分发有针对性的公共卫生通信是必需的。社会和行为文献提供了有关当前流行病如何影响人们评估信息真实性的能力的互动见解。该项目将测试一系列理论知情的假设，说明为什么我们可能会期望人们正确地识别信息的真实性在Covid-19的时间内发生变化，以及为什么我们可能希望人们能够能够与COVID-19相关信息的真实性与确定非covid-19相关信息的真实性的能力不同。通过将实时新闻报道陈述给一群普通公民以及多个月的专业事实检查者，该项目将调查个人级别的实时确定对虚假信息的敏感性，是否可以利用普通公民来众包来众包，是否可以促进高品质信息的标签，以及对众多事实的预期是否会降低预期的信息。法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估，被认为是值得的支持。