TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluating the Effects of Culture and Relationship Strength on Misinformation Challenging Behaviours Within the UK
AU - Scott, Lauren
AU - Cecchinato, Marta E.
AU - Coventry, Lynne
AU - Warner, Mark
PY - 2023/8/25
Y1 - 2023/8/25
N2 - Misinformation has proliferated throughout our digital ecosystem, through social media feeds and group chats with friends and family members. However, a gap exists in the current literature on how individuals challenge misinformed views outside of social media platforms. Through an online survey, we exposed multi (n=50) and mono-cultural (n=50) participants to misinformation scenarios involving close and weak relationship ties, to understand how tie strength and cultural background affects people’s behavioural responses. We found that both the tie strength between the misinformed individual and the cultural background of the challenger has a significant effect on the barriers that individuals foresee affecting their discussions about misinformation, and in the misinformed challenging behaviours. Our findings offer new insights into how relationship tie strength and culture affect misinformation challenging behaviours.
AB - Misinformation has proliferated throughout our digital ecosystem, through social media feeds and group chats with friends and family members. However, a gap exists in the current literature on how individuals challenge misinformed views outside of social media platforms. Through an online survey, we exposed multi (n=50) and mono-cultural (n=50) participants to misinformation scenarios involving close and weak relationship ties, to understand how tie strength and cultural background affects people’s behavioural responses. We found that both the tie strength between the misinformed individual and the cultural background of the challenger has a significant effect on the barriers that individuals foresee affecting their discussions about misinformation, and in the misinformed challenging behaviours. Our findings offer new insights into how relationship tie strength and culture affect misinformation challenging behaviours.
KW - Misinformation
KW - Relationship
KW - Culture
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85173027957
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-42286-7_23
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-42286-7_23
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783031422850
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 429
EP - 438
BT - Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023
A2 - Nocera, José Abdelnour
A2 - Lárusdóttir, Marta Kristín
A2 - Petrie, Helen
A2 - Piccinno, Antonio
A2 - Winckler, Marco
PB - Springer
CY - Cham, Switzerland
ER -