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    Do Tabloids Poison The Well of Social Media? Explaining Democratically Dysfunctional News Sharing

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    This document summarizes a research study that examined the relationship between sharing tabloid news on social media and engaging in democratically dysfunctional news sharing. The researchers monitored several British tabloids and identified users who had shared or followed tabloid news. Over 1,300 of these users completed a survey about their news sharing motivations and the levels of agreement in their social networks. The results showed a significant correlation between sharing tabloid stories and dysfunctional news sharing. Certain motivations like entertaining/trolling and debating positively correlated with this behavior, while informing/persuading negatively correlated. However, levels of agreement in social networks did not predict dysfunctional sharing on their own, but did play a role in correcting such behavior when it occurred.

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    This document summarizes a research study that examined the relationship between sharing tabloid news on social media and engaging in democratically dysfunctional news sharing. The researchers monitored several British tabloids and identified users who had shared or followed tabloid news. Over 1,300 of these users completed a survey about their news sharing motivations and the levels of agreement in their social networks. The results showed a significant correlation between sharing tabloid stories and dysfunctional news sharing. Certain motivations like entertaining/trolling and debating positively correlated with this behavior, while informing/persuading negatively correlated. However, levels of agreement in social networks did not predict dysfunctional sharing on their own, but did play a role in correcting such behavior when it occurred.

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    Do Tabloids Poison The Well of Social

    Media? Explaining Democratically


    Dysfunctional News Sharing [1]
    Andrew Chadwick, Cristian Vaccari, Ben O’Loughlin

    Presented By: M. Talha Uyar


    Outline
     Background Information
     Research Questions
     Methodology
     Results and Discussion
     Conclusion
     References
    Background Information
     What is Disinformation?
     Disinformation denotes information that
    is deliberately false or misleading, while
    misinformation is unintentionally
    inaccurate [2].
    Background Information
     How can we prove intent?
     Statistical analysis of news sources [3]
     Social Bots [4]
     State Sponsored Disinformation [5]
    Who shares this and why?
    Research Questions

     What motivations for sharing news on social media predict users’


    democratically-dysfunctional news sharing?

     What motivations for sharing news on social media predict being


    challenged by others for having engaged in democratically-dysfunctional
    news sharing?
    Research Questions

     What relationship is there between levels of agreement and disagreement


    in users’ online networks and their engagement in democratically-
    dysfunctional news sharing?

     What relationship is there between levels of agreement and disagreement


    in users’ online networks and their being challenged for having engaged in
    democratically-dysfunctional news sharing?
    Hypothesis

     The more that users share tabloid news on social media,


     the more likely they are to engage in democratically dysfunctional news
    sharing (H1a)
     be challenged by users in their social media networks for doing so (H1b).
    Methodology
     Monitored Daily Mail, the Sun, Daily Mirror,
    Daily Express, and Daily Star.
     Identified
     19,248 users who have tweeted at least one
    tabloid news
     20,391 users who are following a tabloid but not
    tweeted
     1,313 users are participated in a survey (3.6%)
     Survey results are analyzed statistically
    Results & Discussion
    Results & Discussion
    Results & Discussion
    Conclusion
     Significant correlation between sharing tabloid news
    stories’ and reporting dysfunctional news sharing.

     Entertaining/trolling and debating are positively


    correlated with dysfunctional news sharing and
    persuading/informing is negatively correlated
    Conclusion
     Agreement and disagreement in social media networks do
    not predict whether a user will engage in dysfunctional
    news sharing.

     However, it plays a role in correcting dysfunctional


    behavior when it occurs.
    Conclusion
     There is no correlation between the news types
    respondents shared and the likelihood of being challenged
    by others.

     It is more than likely that the dysfunctional news sharing


    behavior goes unchallenged.
    References
    [1] Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C. and O'Loughlin, B., 2018. Do tabloids poison the well
    of social media? Explaining democratically dysfunctional news sharing. New
    Media and Society, 20 (11), pp.4255-4274.
    [2] Jack, C. (2017). “Lexicon of Lies: Terms for Problematic Information.” Data &
    Society Research Institute. Retrieved from
    https://datasociety.net/output/lexicon-of-lies/
    [3] Shin, J., L.Jian, D.Kevin, and F.Bar. 2018. “The Diffusion of Misinformation on
    Social Media: Temporal Pattern, Message, and Source.” Computers in Human
    Behavior 83:278–287. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2018.02.008.
    [4] Allcott, H., & Gentzkow, M. (2017). Social Media and Fake News in the 2016
    Election. Journal Of Economic Perspectives, 31(2), 211-236.
    [5] Samantha Bradshaw and Philip N. Howard, “Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A
    Global Inventory of Social Media Manipulation,” Computational Propaganda
    Project Working Paper (2017).
    Q&A

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