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yesterday by twong
The message influences me more than others: How and why social media metrics affect first person perception and behavioral intentions
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563218304953

Highlights
• Social media metrics generate first-person perception (FPP).
• Perceived injunctive norms accounts for the social media metrics effect on FPP.
• FPP induces greater compliant behavioral intentions and social sharing intentions.
• Need to belong moderates the social media metrics effect on FPP.
• Need for closure moderates the social media metrics effect on injunctive norms.

Abstract
Two experiments investigated how and why social media metrics affect perceived media influence and behavioral intentions. In the first experiment (N = 241), those who viewed a news article about an environmental risk with social media metrics (vs. news article only) reported greater media influence on the self than others (First-person perception, FPP), and such effect was more prominent among those high in the need to belong. Increased FPP, in turn, led to greater intentions to combat the risk. The second experiment (N = 210) found that exposure to a news article about a health risk with
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2 days ago by walt74
Faced with a daily barrage of news, college students find it hard to tell what’s real and what’s ‘fake news’
Link: https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/10/16/faced-with-a-daily-barrage-of-news-college-students-find-it-hard-to-tell-whats-real-and-whats-fake-news/
College students turn to their peers and online versions of trusted newspapers for news at least twice as often as they do to print publications, TV, or podcasts. Those who get their news on social media turn to Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube more often than Twitter. And nine out of ten college students get their news from at least five different sources in a given week.

With so many different ways to get news, students face a constant surge that makes it difficult for them to distinguish between what’s real and what’s fake, and in some cases, to trust any news at all, according to a new report from one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of youth media engagement.

“Young people have different ways of consuming news than people born even a decade before them,” said John Wihbey, a Northeastern professor and one of the researchers who conducted the study. “Our report suggests that in some ways, we have created for young people an extremely difficult environment of news. We need to figure out ways to guide them so they can navigate it.”


Michael Caulfield: The Persistent Myth of Insurmountable Tribalism Will Kill Us All - https://hapgood.us/2018/10/16/the-persistent-myth-of-insurmountable-tribalism-will-kill-us-all/
New Knight Foundation-supported study out about college students which very much confirms what we see in classrooms. Students:

feel overwhelmed by the “firehose of news”
feel unequipped to sort through that news
want to read and share truthful accounts
believe in journalistic principles of accuracy and verification
but fall back on cynicism as a strategy, believing far more news to be fake or spun than really is
All this is exactly what we see in classrooms. Every class might have one or two hardcore partisans, but the vast majority of students feel OVERWHELMED. They want to do the right thing, but it seems impossibly time-intensive and complex.

What we find in this environment is that some students initially talk like hardcore partisans when looking at prompts, before they have the skills to navigate the overload. But that’s because the alternative to reacting tribally is an investigation they imagine is going to take them an afternoon. Once they have the skills, that tendency slips away. Here’s the sort of answers we’re getting after one week of skills training when a student looks at a story of declining arctic ice from the National Snow & Ice Data Center (an excellent source, BTW):

“This site appears trustworthy. I searched Google news and found it is cited by multiple credible sources including bigger weather news sites. I also used the “Just add Wikipedia” trick as a way to investigate funding and found that it is partially funded by the US through NASA, which shows there are probably experts there.”

“It’s good, they’ve been around forever and are affiliated with other research facilities like University of Colorado.”

—(amalgamation of several student responses to protect student privacy).

We do enough of these in class that we can see they get to this point in less than 60 seconds for many tasks. If the habits hold, when someone tries to pull them slowly into post-truth land, they’ll have a natural resistance. Maybe enough to avoid the first steps down that slippery slope.
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