Fake news as a two-dimensional phenomenon: a framework and research agenda
A review of a number of studies in the aim of defining the term “Fake news” in response to its recent abusive use. In its findings the paper proposes that “Fake News”…
Believing and acting on fake news related to natural food: the influential role of brand trust and system trust
A study that aims at exploring the impacts of fake news as a risk specifically for natural food brands, in an attempt to help policy makers and brand marketers in taking informed…
Consumer response to fake news about brands on social media: the effects of self-efficacy, media trust, and persuasion knowledge on brand trust
Triggered by the hoax news regarding Coca-Cola recalling its product Dasani water due to contamination in the USA, the study aims at studying consumer behavior regarding fake news, based on the persuasion…
Just another clickbait title: A corpus-driven investigation of negative attitudes toward science on Reddit
A study to analyze the content of and motivations behind negative attitudes toward science without researcher intervention and by utilizing corpus-driven discourse analysis, the source of data from the social content website…
What Constitutes Disinformation? Disinformation Judgment, Influence of Partisanship, and Support for Anti-Disinformation Legislation
A study that attempts to understand how people define the term “Disinformation” and how the way it’s defined affects the problems the stem from it.
Social media? It’s serious! Understanding the dark side of social media
A very interesting paper on the drakside of social media, which can be unquantifiable and often unretrievable and nonforgiving in nature. The paper studies the important forces at play, using the social…
Social Media and Crisis Communication
The book addresses a number of very important topics related to communication including but not limited to: communication in crisis management, communication theory, disaster, ethics, mobile media, social media, social network and…
Public Interest and Private Rights In Social Media
The book focuses on the use and impact of social media and where they see it heading as a platform, keeping in mind it was published in 2012. the legal aspects are…
Reading, Commenting and Sharing of Fake News: How Online Bandwagons and Bots Dictate User Engagement
The research compares the actions of reading, liking, commenting, and sharing of real vs fake news. Among the findings was that real info were more likely to receive “likes” whereas false info…
Social Media Law and Ethics
A book refered to as excellent for communication and journalism students, as it cover a good number of important legal topics, such as copyright law, data privacy, revenge porn, defamation, government censorship,…
