The influence of personality and motivation on the spread of misinformation in social media.

• Main Author: Chen, Xinran.
• Other Authors: Sin Sei Ching Joanna
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50857
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Social media is becoming a foundational component of daily life with rich user-generated information circulating within. It has also become a fertile ground for misinformation, defined as factually untrue information, due to the lack of quality control mechanism. The spread of misinformation in soci...