scholarly journals Reluctant to Share: How Third Person Perceptions of Fake News Discourage News Readers From Sharing “Real News” on Social Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512095517
Author(s):  
Fan Yang ◽  
Michael Horning
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Third Person Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
Significant Attention

Rampant fake news on social media has drawn significant attention. Yet, much remains unknown as to how such imbalanced evaluations of self versus others could shape social media users’ perceptions and their subsequent attitudes and behavioral intentions regarding social media news. An online survey ( N = 335) was conducted to examine the third person effect (TPE) in fake news on social media and suggested that users perceived a greater influence of fake news on others than on themselves. However, although users evaluated fake news as socially undesirable, they were still unsupportive of government censorship as a remedy. In addition, the perceived prevalence of fake news leads audiences to reported significantly less willingness to share all news on social media either online or offline.

scholarly journals Fake news, information overload, and the third-person effect in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 205943642110473
Author(s):  
Shuo Tang ◽  
Lars Willnat ◽  
Hongzhong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
National Survey ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Third Person Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person

Based on a national survey of 1111 Chinese citizens, this study analyzes how exposure to fake news and perceptions of information overload are associated with the third-person effect. The findings indicate that fake news exposure correlates with perceived information overload and third-person perceptions of fake news. Respondents with higher levels of perceived information overload also report stronger third-person perceptions. In addition, Chinese respondents who believe that fake news affects others more than themselves are less likely to support stricter controls of fake news.

Fake News and the Third-Person Effect: They are More Influenced than Me and You

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3(32)) ◽  
pp. 5-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oana Ștefăniță ◽  
◽  
Nicoleta Corbu ◽  
Raluca Buturoiu ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fake News ◽  
Third Person Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person

‘They can’t fool me, but they can fool the others!’ Third person effect and fake news detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Corbu ◽  
Denisa-Adriana Oprea ◽  
Elena Negrea-Busuioc ◽  
Loredana Radu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Third Person Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
The Third Person

The aftermath of the 2016 US Presidential Elections and the Brexit campaign in Europe have opened the floor to heated debates about fake news and the dangers that these phenomena pose to elections and to democracy, in general. Despite a growing body of scholarly literature on fake news and its close relatives misinformation, disinformation or, more encompassing, communication and information disorders, few studies have so far attempted to empirically account for the effects that fake news might have, especially with respect to what communication scholars call the third person effect. This study aims to provide empirical evidence for the third person effect in the case of people’s self-perceived ability to detect fake news and of their perception of others’ ability to detect it. Based on a survey run in August 2018 and comprising a national, diverse sample of Romanian adults ( N = 813), this research reveals that there is a significant third person effect regarding people’s self-reported ability to spot fake news and that this effect is stronger when people compare their fake news detection literacy to that of distant others than to that close others. Furthermore, this study shows that the most important predictors of third person effect related to fake news detection are education, income, interest in politics, Facebook dependency and confirmation bias, with age being a non-significant predictor.

scholarly journals Epistemic Overconfidence in Algorithmic News Selection

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariken Van der Velden ◽  
Felicia Loecherbach
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Positive Interaction ◽  
Third Person Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Third Person ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Filter Bubbles ◽  
The Third Person

The process of news consumption has undergone great changes over the past decade: Information is now available in an ever-increasing amount from a plethora of sources. Recent work suggests that most people would favor algorithmic solutions over human editors. This stands in contrast to public and scholarly debate about the pitfalls of algorithmic news selection—i.e., the so-called “filter bubbles.” This study therefore investigates reasons and motivations which might lead people to prefer algorithmic gatekeepers over human ones. We expect that people have more algorithmic appreciation when consuming news to pass time, entertain oneself, or out of escapism than when using news to keep up-to-date with politics (H1). Secondly, we hypothesize the extent to which people are confident in their own cognitive abilities to moderate that relationship: When people are overconfident in their own capabilities to estimate the relevance of information, they are more likely to have higher levels of algorithmic appreciation, due to the third person effect (H2). For testing those two pre-registered hypotheses, we conducted an online survey with a sample of 268 US participants and replicated our study using a sample of 384 Dutch participants. The results show that the first hypothesis cannot be supported by our data. However, a positive interaction between overconfidence and algorithmic appreciation for the gratification of surveillance (i.e., gaining information about the world, society, and politics) was found in both samples. Thereby, our study contributes to our understanding of the underlying reasons people have for choosing different forms of gatekeeping when selecting news.

scholarly journals Facebook influences you more than me: The perceived impact of social media effects among young Facebook users

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-253
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Corbu ◽  
Oana Ştefǎnițǎ ◽  
Raluca Buturoiu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Third Person Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
New Type ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Effect Hypothesis ◽  
The Third Person

The popularity and prevalent use of Facebook among young people are common pre­occupations for communication researchers. They focus on unveiling people’s motivations, usage be­haviour, and gratifications offered by this communication medium. However, little attention has been invested in examining how young people perceive this new type of media consumption and its effects on themselves as compared to others. Drawing on Davison’s 1983 third-person effect hypothesis, this research paper investigates the a differences in estimated Facebook effects on self versus others, b association between the desirability of the message anti-social versus pro-social and estimated Facebook effects on self versus others, and c association between the type of the message and es­timated Facebook effects on self versus others. These relationships are studied with reference to the behavioural component of the third-person effect. Results confirm that Facebook might influence the magnitude and direction of the perceptual gap of media effects.

Effects of Light-Hearted and Serious Entertainment on Enjoyment of the First and Third Person

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Hofer
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
First Person ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Third Person Effect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Perceived Enjoyment ◽  
The Third Person

Abstract. This was a study on the perceived enjoyment of different movie genres. In an online experiment, 176 students were randomly divided into two groups (n = 88) and asked to estimate how much they, their closest friends, and young people in general enjoyed either serious or light-hearted movies. These self–other differences in perceived enjoyment of serious or light-hearted movies were also assessed as a function of differing individual motivations underlying entertainment media consumption. The results showed a clear third-person effect for light-hearted movies and a first-person effect for serious movies. The third-person effect for light-hearted movies was moderated by level of hedonic motivation, as participants with high hedonic motivations did not perceive their own and others’ enjoyment of light-hearted films differently. However, eudaimonic motivations did not moderate first-person perceptions in the case of serious films.

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