Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India
| العنوان: | Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India |
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| المؤلفون: | Sumitra Badrinathan |
| المصدر: | American Political Science Review. 115:1325-1341 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Motivated reasoning, Sociology and Political Science, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, Psychological intervention, Developing country, 050801 communication & media studies, Public relations, 0506 political science, 0508 media and communications, Intervention (counseling), Political Science and International Relations, 050602 political science & public administration, Media literacy, Social media, Misinformation, Psychological resilience, Psychology, business, media_common |
| الوصف: | Misinformation makes democratic governance harder, especially in developing countries. Despite its real-world import, little is known about how to combat misinformation outside of the United States, particularly in places with low education, accelerating Internet access, and encrypted information sharing. This study uses a field experiment in India to test the efficacy of a pedagogical intervention on respondents’ ability to identify misinformation during the 2019 elections (N= 1,224). Treated respondents received hour-long in-person media literacy training in which enumerators discussed inoculation strategies, corrections, and the importance of verifying misinformation, all in a coherent learning module. Receiving this hour-long media literacy intervention did not significantly increase respondents’ ability to identify misinformation on average. However, treated respondents who support the ruling party became significantly less able to identify pro-attitudinal stories. These findings point to the resilience of misinformation in India and the presence of motivated reasoning in a traditionally nonideological party system. |
| تدمد: | 1537-5943 0003-0554 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::cc51f87bd09e9b23b64b859a15945267Test https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055421000459Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....cc51f87bd09e9b23b64b859a15945267 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15375943 00030554 |
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