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Sharing of fake news on social media: Application of the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis
Sharing of fake news on social media platforms is a global concern, with research offering little insight into the motives behind such sharing. This study adopts a mixed-method approach to explore fake-news sharing behaviour. To begin with, qualitative data from 58 open-ended essays was analysed to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7340407/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2020.102197 |
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author | Talwar, Shalini Dhir, Amandeep Singh, Dilraj Virk, Gurnam Singh Salo, Jari |
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description | Sharing of fake news on social media platforms is a global concern, with research offering little insight into the motives behind such sharing. This study adopts a mixed-method approach to explore fake-news sharing behaviour. To begin with, qualitative data from 58 open-ended essays was analysed to identify six behavioural manifestations associated with sharing fake news. Thereafter, research model hypothesizing the association between these behaviours was proposed using the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis. Age and gender were the control variables. Two data sets obtained from cross-sectional surveys with 471 and 374 social media users were utilized to test the proposed model. The study results suggest that instantaneous sharing of news for creating awareness had positive effect on sharing fake news due to lack of time and religiosity. However, authenticating news before sharing had no effect on sharing fake news due to lack of time and religiosity. The study results also suggest that social media users who engage in active corrective action are unlikely to share fake news due to lack of time. These results have significant theoretical and practical implications. |
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spelling | pubmed-73404072020-07-08 Sharing of fake news on social media: Application of the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis Talwar, Shalini Dhir, Amandeep Singh, Dilraj Virk, Gurnam Singh Salo, Jari Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services Article Sharing of fake news on social media platforms is a global concern, with research offering little insight into the motives behind such sharing. This study adopts a mixed-method approach to explore fake-news sharing behaviour. To begin with, qualitative data from 58 open-ended essays was analysed to identify six behavioural manifestations associated with sharing fake news. Thereafter, research model hypothesizing the association between these behaviours was proposed using the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis. Age and gender were the control variables. Two data sets obtained from cross-sectional surveys with 471 and 374 social media users were utilized to test the proposed model. The study results suggest that instantaneous sharing of news for creating awareness had positive effect on sharing fake news due to lack of time and religiosity. However, authenticating news before sharing had no effect on sharing fake news due to lack of time and religiosity. The study results also suggest that social media users who engage in active corrective action are unlikely to share fake news due to lack of time. These results have significant theoretical and practical implications. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7340407/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2020.102197 Text en © 2020 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Talwar, Shalini Dhir, Amandeep Singh, Dilraj Virk, Gurnam Singh Salo, Jari Sharing of fake news on social media: Application of the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis |
title | Sharing of fake news on social media: Application of the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis |
title_full | Sharing of fake news on social media: Application of the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis |
title_fullStr | Sharing of fake news on social media: Application of the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis |
title_full_unstemmed | Sharing of fake news on social media: Application of the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis |
title_short | Sharing of fake news on social media: Application of the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis |
title_sort | sharing of fake news on social media: application of the honeycomb framework and the third-person effect hypothesis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7340407/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2020.102197 |
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