TY - GEN
T1 - Investigating Correction Effects of Different Modalities for Misinformation about COVID-19
AU - Tseng, Yu Chia
AU - Bi, Nanyi
AU - Chang, Yung Ju
AU - Yuan, Chien Wen Tina
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Bao-Tang Yang for assisting with data collection. This research was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST 109-2221-E-003-010-MY3, 110-2634-F-002 -051 -, 110-2811-E-002-547-MY3).
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PY - 2022/11/8
Y1 - 2022/11/8
N2 - Misinformation presented in different modalities about the COVID-19 pandemic has been prevalent. One approach to reducing the negative effects of misinformation is through corrective information. However, it is possible that people develop counter-attitude towards the corrective information and reaffirm their belief in misinformation, called the boomerang effect. Fewer studies examined how different modes of corrective information about COVID-19 may address the boomerang effect. With a 3-by-3 between-subject experiment design (n = 210), we first presented one of the three modalities of misinformation (text, image, video) to the participants, followed by one of the three modalities of corrective information (text, image, video) to examine the effect of the corrective information. The results showed that there was no boomerang effect after correction in all modalities, indicating that all corrective information successfully reduced participants' perceived credibility and potential action for misinformation. In the post-hoc analysis, the correction in the video mode worked best on text misinformation. Our results also suggested that image misinformation worked least effectively in terms of conveying misinformation.
AB - Misinformation presented in different modalities about the COVID-19 pandemic has been prevalent. One approach to reducing the negative effects of misinformation is through corrective information. However, it is possible that people develop counter-attitude towards the corrective information and reaffirm their belief in misinformation, called the boomerang effect. Fewer studies examined how different modes of corrective information about COVID-19 may address the boomerang effect. With a 3-by-3 between-subject experiment design (n = 210), we first presented one of the three modalities of misinformation (text, image, video) to the participants, followed by one of the three modalities of corrective information (text, image, video) to examine the effect of the corrective information. The results showed that there was no boomerang effect after correction in all modalities, indicating that all corrective information successfully reduced participants' perceived credibility and potential action for misinformation. In the post-hoc analysis, the correction in the video mode worked best on text misinformation. Our results also suggested that image misinformation worked least effectively in terms of conveying misinformation.
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U2 - 10.1145/3500868.3559455
DO - 10.1145/3500868.3559455
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85143802668
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 54
EP - 58
BT - CSCW 2022 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 Computer Supported Cooperative Workand Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2022
Y2 - 8 November 2022 through 22 November 2022
ER -