Distractions, analytical thinking and falling for fake news: A survey of psychological factors

A Kwek, L Peh, J Tan, JX Lee - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2023 - nature.com
Analytical thinking safeguards us against believing or spreading fake news. In various forms,
this common assumption has been reported, investigated, or implemented in fake news …

Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research

D Garusi, S Splendore - Sociology compass, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The contemporary media environment represents the greatest challenge ever to journalism's
legitimacy. Surveys conducted in different parts of the world highlight a decline in trust in …

Repressed media and illiberal politics in Turkey: the persistence of fear

M Akser, B Baybars - Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the historical roots of the role of successive Turkish governments' fear
of media and Turkish media's fear of government authority with respect to the development …

Seven years of studying the associations between political polarization and problematic information: a literature review

G Marino, L Iannelli - Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This literature review examines the intersection between political polarization and
problematic information, two phenomena prominent in recent events like the 2016 Trump …

Folk theories of false information: A mixed-methods study in the context of Covid-19 in Turkey

S Koçer, B Öz, G Okçuoğlu… - new media & …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores how media users define false information in the daily flow of their lives
against a backdrop of sociopolitical contexts. We focus on the vernacular definitions of false …

“It's the ideology, stupid!”: Trust in the press, ideological proximity between citizens and journalists and political parallelism. A comparative approach in 17 countries

L Curini, D Garusi, S Splendore - International …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Matching national surveys with the dataset offered by the Worlds of Journalism Study
network (2012–2016), this article presents an analysis of trust in the press covering 16 …

The Impact of Social Media on Social Cohesion: A Double-Edged Sword

S Stieglitz, B Ross - Media and Communication, 2022 - cogitatiopress.com
Social media plays a major role in public communication in many countries. Therefore, it has
a large impact on societies and their cohesion. This thematic issue explores the impact …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the effects of location information on perceptions of news credibility and sharing intention

Y Ma, Z Sarsenbayeva, J Knibbe… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
In recent years, the integration of location-based services into social media platforms has
seen a significant surge, coinciding with the growing challenges posed by the proliferation of …

Rethinking news trust in post-truth Turkey: Immediacy as the imagined affordance of television and search engines

S Koçer, N Özkan - Journalism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In today's post-truth world, news users grapple with the tension between growing distrust in
news institutions and the need for “true” information. Based on a mixed-methods study …

Sosyal Medya Haberlerine Güven ve Doğrulama: Üniversite Öğrencileri Üzerine Bir Saha Araştırması

S Beşikci, Ş Çelikkol - Akdeniz Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi, 2024 - dergipark.org.tr
Sosyal medya; son yıllarda haber almak, iletişim kurmak, içerik paylaşmak, sosyalleşmek, e-
ticaret yapmak gibi çok farklı gerekçelerle kullanılmaktadır. Kullanım alanı geniş olmakla …