How People Process Different Types of Health Misinformation: Roles of Content Falsity and Evidence Type.
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2023 at "Health communication"
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2184452
Abstract: Emerging communication technologies have seen the proliferation of misleading claims, untruthful narratives, and conspiracies. To understand how people perceive and act on different types of misinformation, this study examines how health misinformation varying in falsity… read more here.
Keywords: health misinformation; misinformation; different types; evidence ... See more keywords
An experimental study of the effectiveness of fact checks: interplay of evidence type, veracity and news agreement
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2023 at "Online Information Review"
DOI: 10.1108/oir-09-2022-0492
Abstract: PurposeGiven the rapid growth in efforts on misinformation correction, the study aims to test how evidence type and veracity interact with news agreement on the effectiveness of fact-checking on how well a corrective message discount… read more here.
Keywords: article; fact; news; evidence ... See more keywords
Formalizing Evidence Type Definitions for Drug-Drug Interaction Studies to Improve Evidence Base Curation
Sign Up to like & getrecommendations! Published in 2017 at "Studies in health technology and informatics"
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-960
Abstract: In this research we aim to demonstrate that an ontology-based system can categorize potential drug-drug interaction (PDDI) evidence items into complex types based on a small set of simple questions. Such a method could increase… read more here.
Keywords: ontology; type definitions; evidence; drug ... See more keywords