Audiences’ acts of authentication in the age of fake news: a conceptual framework

• Main Authors: Tandoc, Edson C., Ling, Richard, Westlund, Oscar, Duffy, Andrew, Goh, Debbie, Zheng Wei, Lim
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Authentication; Credibility
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86672; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45170
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Through an analysis of relevant literature and open-ended survey responses from 2501 Singaporeans, this article proposes a conceptual framework to understand how individuals authenticate the information they encounter on social media. In broad strokes, we find that individuals rely on both their own...