Salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials on the Internet

In the era of social media, rumors spread faster and wider than ever before. After a rumor spreads, its effect can be curbed by issuing online refutation messages known as denials. Notwithstanding the potential of denials to reduce Internet users' likelihood to be misinformed, they generally re...

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Main Authors: Pal, Anjan, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-828552020-03-07T12:15:48Z Salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials on the Internet Pal, Anjan Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM 2018) Social sciences::Communication Denials Misinformation In the era of social media, rumors spread faster and wider than ever before. After a rumor spreads, its effect can be curbed by issuing online refutation messages known as denials. Notwithstanding the potential of denials to reduce Internet users' likelihood to be misinformed, they generally remain less pervasive than rumors. Hence, there is a need to identify how users can be enticed to share denials. Informed by the literature, this paper argues that users' salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials could influence their intention to share such messages. Salient beliefs refer to beliefs about a behavior that are cognitively easy to access at any moment, and serve as primary determinants of performing the behavior. As a part of a larger ongoing project, this paper conducts a survey to identify salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials. The following salient beliefs were identified: Sharing denials help to spread the truth. Friends and the online community would encourage the behavior of sharing rumor denials. Source credibility of denials facilitates sharing of such messages. Significance of the findings and future research directions are highlighted. MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Accepted version 2019-10-02T05:21:46Z 2019-12-06T15:06:56Z 2019-10-02T05:21:46Z 2019-12-06T15:06:56Z 2018 Conference Paper Pal, A., Chua, A. Y. K., & Goh, D. H.-L. (2018). Salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials on the Internet. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication - IMCOM '18, 57-. doi:10.1145/3164541.3164578 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82855 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50075 10.1145/3164541.3164578 en © 2018 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). All rights reserved. This paper was published in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication - IMCOM '18 and is made available with permission of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 8 p. application/pdf
institution Nanyang Technological University
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topic Social sciences::Communication
Denials
Misinformation
spellingShingle Social sciences::Communication
Denials
Misinformation
Pal, Anjan
Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian
Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan
Salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials on the Internet
description In the era of social media, rumors spread faster and wider than ever before. After a rumor spreads, its effect can be curbed by issuing online refutation messages known as denials. Notwithstanding the potential of denials to reduce Internet users' likelihood to be misinformed, they generally remain less pervasive than rumors. Hence, there is a need to identify how users can be enticed to share denials. Informed by the literature, this paper argues that users' salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials could influence their intention to share such messages. Salient beliefs refer to beliefs about a behavior that are cognitively easy to access at any moment, and serve as primary determinants of performing the behavior. As a part of a larger ongoing project, this paper conducts a survey to identify salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials. The following salient beliefs were identified: Sharing denials help to spread the truth. Friends and the online community would encourage the behavior of sharing rumor denials. Source credibility of denials facilitates sharing of such messages. Significance of the findings and future research directions are highlighted.
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Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan
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title Salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials on the Internet
title_short Salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials on the Internet
title_full Salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials on the Internet
title_fullStr Salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials on the Internet
title_full_unstemmed Salient beliefs about sharing rumor denials on the Internet
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