Effect of fake news awareness as an intervention strategy for motivating news verification behaviour among social media users in Nigeria: a quasi-experimental …

OD Apuke, B Omar, EA Tunca - Journal of Asian and African …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study tests the effect of fake news awareness as an intervention strategy for motivating
news verification behaviour among social media users in Nigeria. A quasi-experiment was …

Deception in the era of digital technologies and the distortion of reality and facts: An X-Ray of Nigerian peculiarities

MK Hazzan - E-Learning and Digital Media, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The phenomenal increase in the level of digital technologies has in no small measure
enabled and opened new vista of possibilities that were hitherto inconceivable before the …

The Dissemination of fake news on social media: A demographic analysis of audience involvement

T Kayode-Adedeji, I Nwakerendu - European Conference on …, 2022 - books.google.com
Social media users continue to threaten privacy with the spread of fake news thus impacting
people negatively. This study seeks not just to reveal the predominant demography of …

Data-driven digital participation in agri-food context: Why should C4D and CfSC scholars and practitioners pay attention to information disorder?

KH Kabir, A Chowdhury, U Edet - Digital Communication for …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
During the past few decades, the agriculture sector has undergone an enormous transition
regarding its various aspects, especially how advice is administered to producers and …

Social Media Use: Awareness of Covid-19 Vaccine and Acceptance among Undergraduate Students in Kano State, Nigeria

B Usman, AE Msughter, AO Ridwanullah - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Background: The outbreak of Covid-19 of 2019 and its escalation to a global pandemic
posed threat to public health worldwide. Although availability and acceptance of Covid-19 …

Combating the menace of Fake news and Hoaxes in Nigeria for National Security: intervention of the information professionals

M Aboyade - Journal of Balkan libraries union, 2022 - dergipark.org.tr
Misinformation and disinformation, popularly known as 'fake news' have assumed a
disturbing dimension in recent times. Its damaging implications cut across every fiber of a …

[PDF][PDF] Public relations in the digital age: Implications for nigerian public relations practitioners

DO Okocha, DO Monday - The Social and Management Scientist, 2023 - researchgate.net
The implication of the digital age on Public Relations practitioners is the major focus for this
work. It looked at the digital age as a period characterized by the systematic transitioning …

Social media and fake news in nigeria: A speech act analysis of WhatsApp messages on coronavirus

GA Owojecho - Studies in Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis, 2021 - sabapub.com
The evolution of social media has opened a new vista in digital communication across the
world, Nigeria inclusive. Since the confirmation of the index case of Coronavirus in Nigeria …

[PDF][PDF] VERIFICATION OF COVID-19 MISINFORMATION ONLINE: LITERACY CONTRIBUTIONS OF FACT CHECKING WEBSITES DURING THE COVID-19 …

EM Aina - 2023 - uh-ir.tdl.org
With the rise of social media have come problems of authorship and mis-and dis-and mal-
information. Social media allows everyday people to become content creators and gives a …

[PDF][PDF] Hoax Logic in the Political Activities of Indonesian Netizens on Twitter

U Wahida, I Syahputra - International Journal of Innovation …, 2020 - academia.edu
This article discusses how to comprehend “hoax logic” as a political category in the
conversations of Indonesian netizens on Twitter. The discussion on hoax logic explores four …