Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19

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Autor(a) principal: Vraga, Emily K.
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Tully, Melissa, Bode, Leticia
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.3200
Resumo: The World Health Organization has declared that misinformation shared on social media about Covid-19 is an “infodemic” that must be fought alongside the pandemic itself. We reflect on how news literacy and science literacy can provide a foundation to combat misinformation about Covid-19 by giving social media users the tools to identify, consume, and share high-quality information. These skills can be put into practice to combat the infodemic by amplifying quality information and actively correcting misinformation seen on social media. We conclude by considering the extent to which what we know about these literacies and related behaviors can be extended to less-researched areas like the Global South.
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title Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19
spellingShingle Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19
Vraga, Emily K.
Coronavirus; correction; Covid-19; misinformation; news literacy; social media
title_short Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19
title_full Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19
title_fullStr Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19
title_full_unstemmed Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19
title_sort Empowering Users to Respond to Misinformation about Covid-19
author Vraga, Emily K.
author_facet Vraga, Emily K.
Tully, Melissa
Bode, Leticia
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Bode, Leticia
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Vraga, Emily K.
Tully, Melissa
Bode, Leticia
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Coronavirus; correction; Covid-19; misinformation; news literacy; social media
topic Coronavirus; correction; Covid-19; misinformation; news literacy; social media
description The World Health Organization has declared that misinformation shared on social media about Covid-19 is an “infodemic” that must be fought alongside the pandemic itself. We reflect on how news literacy and science literacy can provide a foundation to combat misinformation about Covid-19 by giving social media users the tools to identify, consume, and share high-quality information. These skills can be put into practice to combat the infodemic by amplifying quality information and actively correcting misinformation seen on social media. We conclude by considering the extent to which what we know about these literacies and related behaviors can be extended to less-researched areas like the Global South.
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