Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility
In this study we investigate the abilities to determine the credibility of digital news among 483 teenagers. Using an online survey with a performance test we assess to what extent teenagers are able to determine the credibility of different sources, evaluate credible and biased uses of evidence, an...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Sciendo
2019-02-01
|
| Series: | Nordicom Review |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0002 |
| _version_ | 1797758659100409856 |
|---|---|
| author | Nygren Thomas Guath Mona |
| author_facet | Nygren Thomas Guath Mona |
| author_sort | Nygren Thomas |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | In this study we investigate the abilities to determine the credibility of digital news among 483 teenagers. Using an online survey with a performance test we assess to what extent teenagers are able to determine the credibility of different sources, evaluate credible and biased uses of evidence, and corroborate information. Many respondents fail to identify the credibility of false, biased and vetted news. Respondents who value the importance of credible news seem to hold a mindset helping them to determine credibility better than other respondents. In contrast, respondents self-reporting to be good at searching information online and who find information online trustworthy are not very good at civic online reasoning. Our findings, which may be linked to theories of disciplinary literacy, science curiosity and overconfidence, provide a basis for further research of how to better understand and support civic online reasoning in classrooms and society. |
| first_indexed | 2024-03-12T18:32:16Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-bf9e2f92113a4e2f8f68689534bbf53f |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2001-5119 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-12T18:32:16Z |
| publishDate | 2019-02-01 |
| publisher | Sciendo |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Nordicom Review |
| spelling | doaj.art-bf9e2f92113a4e2f8f68689534bbf53f2023-08-02T08:15:12ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192019-02-01401234210.2478/nor-2019-0002Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibilityNygren Thomas0Guath Mona1Department of Education, Uppsala University, SwedenDepartment of Psychology, Uppsala University, SwedenIn this study we investigate the abilities to determine the credibility of digital news among 483 teenagers. Using an online survey with a performance test we assess to what extent teenagers are able to determine the credibility of different sources, evaluate credible and biased uses of evidence, and corroborate information. Many respondents fail to identify the credibility of false, biased and vetted news. Respondents who value the importance of credible news seem to hold a mindset helping them to determine credibility better than other respondents. In contrast, respondents self-reporting to be good at searching information online and who find information online trustworthy are not very good at civic online reasoning. Our findings, which may be linked to theories of disciplinary literacy, science curiosity and overconfidence, provide a basis for further research of how to better understand and support civic online reasoning in classrooms and society.https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0002credibilitysourcingfake newsscience curiositymedia information literacy |
| spellingShingle | Nygren Thomas Guath Mona Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility Nordicom Review credibility sourcing fake news science curiosity media information literacy |
| title | Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility |
| title_full | Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility |
| title_fullStr | Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility |
| title_full_unstemmed | Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility |
| title_short | Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility |
| title_sort | swedish teenagers difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility |
| topic | credibility sourcing fake news science curiosity media information literacy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0002 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT nygrenthomas swedishteenagersdifficultiesandabilitiestodeterminedigitalnewscredibility AT guathmona swedishteenagersdifficultiesandabilitiestodeterminedigitalnewscredibility |