Concerns over fake news have triggered a renewed interest in various forms of media
literacy. Prevailing expectations posit that literacy interventions help audiences to be …

Introducción: La desinformación se ha convertido en un problema clave para las
sociedades democráticas contemporáneas. Para contrarrestar esta amenaza, las …

This paper reports results from a mixed-methods study about how college students engage
with news when questions of credibility and" fake news" abound in the US Findings are …

News media literacy refers to the knowledge and motivations needed to identify and engage
with journalism. This study measured levels of news media literacy among 500 teenagers …

Despite the pervasiveness of digital disinformation in society, little is known about the
individual characteristics that make some users more susceptible to erroneous information …

Despite renewed interest in news literacy (NL) as a way to combat mis-and dis-information,
existing scholarship is plagued by insufficient theory building and inadequate …

There has been substantial scholarly effort to (a) investigate the psychological
underpinnings of why individuals believe in misinformation, and (b) develop interventions …

Interest in news literacy inside and outside the academy has grown alongside related
concerns about the quality of news and information available. Attempts to fully define …

A survey of college students showed those who had taken a news literacy course had
significantly higher levels of news media literacy, greater knowledge of current events, and …

Objective: False news about vaccination shared in digital spaces is a major problem that
harms informed health choices. Drawing from processing fluency theory, we propose that an …