Karim Shabani; ali geranmayepour; shahnaz hashemi
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The present study aimed to discover the factors that detect fake news in the media, especially social networks because the speed of spreading fake news in new media and its negative impact on public opinion is irreparable in some cases. The method of this qualitative study and its statistical population ...
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The present study aimed to discover the factors that detect fake news in the media, especially social networks because the speed of spreading fake news in new media and its negative impact on public opinion is irreparable in some cases. The method of this qualitative study and its statistical population included experts in the field of communication sciences, media, and news, which were selected from the method of targeted sampling and snowball (chain reference) based on the inclusion criteria. The required information was obtained by using documentary studies and semi-structured interviews for 1720 minutes and 15 interviews with publication saturation conditions and the method of receiving participants' feedback was used to validate the thematic analysis. The results were analyzed using MAXQDA 2020 software and the thematic analysis method. The results of the analysis were formed in the form of 439 key concepts and 57 codes, 12 sub-themes, and 5 main themes of "content structure", "publishing agent", "news source", "rules", and "machine algorithms". Interpretation and analysis of data showed that the detection of fake news in the media and social networks in Iran, above all, needed to create a database to compare and model the methods of writing fake news and detect it, and more research is needed in the field. Content analysis is done in Persian to get a better understanding of fake news writing patterns in Persian.
Azadeh Salemi; Hadi Khaniki; Habib Habib Sabouri KhosrowShahi; Shahnaz Hashemi
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In spite of the necessity of Media Literacy for optimal use of new communication technologies, media consumption experience may increase media literacy as well. The purpose of the present research is to propose a model for predicting internet users' media health literacy according to their Social Media ...
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In spite of the necessity of Media Literacy for optimal use of new communication technologies, media consumption experience may increase media literacy as well. The purpose of the present research is to propose a model for predicting internet users' media health literacy according to their Social Media Consumption patterns. By Media Health Literacy, we mean people’s perceived abilities to access, analyze, create and convey health messages through media. The research method is survey which was conducted in May 2019. The research tool is the questionnaire whose reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha=0.837) and validity (face validity and construct validity) have been confirmed. The statistical population is adult citizens of Tehran who use internet. According to the Path Analysis model, "Gratifications obtained from social media use in the field of health" is the most powerful predictor of "Media Health Literacy" levels. "Frequency of Social Media Use", "years of education", "Adoption of health-related social media" and "Age" are the other independent variables which have shares in predicting Media Health Literacy's level among Social Media Users in Tehran. In conclusion, by increase in citizens' access to internet, Digital divide shifts from unequal access to new communication technologies to the quality of usage. In addition, Digital Divide remains between social groups in terms of "age" and "years of education", but "sex" does not define Social Media Users' "Media Health Literacy" levels.
ali ghasemijahan; Shahnaz Hashemi; Ali Geranmayeh pour
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Nowadays, media has been described as a potentially powerful tool that can affect the control of political, economic, cultural, and social problems in human societies. Users’ media selection is the only way of the media’s survival among plenty of media and social networks. This research referred ...
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Nowadays, media has been described as a potentially powerful tool that can affect the control of political, economic, cultural, and social problems in human societies. Users’ media selection is the only way of the media’s survival among plenty of media and social networks. This research referred to most papers about media from 2015 to 2020. Among 300 papers, we evaluated 33 studies suitable for this recent research. Also, the weights and effects of these attributes can be investigated in future researches precisely. These social media contains all kinds of formal and informal media like broadcasting, satellite, TV, radio, etc. So new research has shown informal social software applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, etc that have gotten popular incredibly.
