The influence of personality and motivation on the spread of misinformation in social media.

Social media is becoming a foundational component of daily life with rich user-generated information circulating within. It has also become a fertile ground for misinformation, defined as factually untrue information, due to the lack of quality control mechanism. The spread of misinformation in soci...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Xinran.
Other Authors: Sin Sei Ching Joanna
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50857