Vraga, E. K., Kim, S. C., & Cook, J. (2019). Testing logic-based and humor-based corrections for science, health, and political misinformation on social media. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 63(3), 393-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2019.1653102
Singh, L., Bode, L., Budak, C., Kawintiranon, K., Padden, C., & Vraga, E. (2020). Understanding high-and low-quality URL Sharing on COVID-19 Twitter streams. Journal of computational social science, 3(2), 343-366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-020-00093-6
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Twitter, Two ExperimentsVraga, E. K., & Bode, L. (2020). Defining misinformation and understanding its bounded nature: Using expertise and evidence for describing misinformation. Political Communication, 37(1), 136-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1716500 /*! elementor – v3.12.1 – 02-04-2023 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block} In this article, we tackle the various challenges which come with defining what exactly is misinformation. It
Tully, M., Vraga, E. K., & Smithson, A.-B. (2020). News media literacy, perceptions of bias, and interpretation of news. Journalism, 21(2), 209–226. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884918805262
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UncategorizedSingh, L., Bansal, S., Bode, L., Budak, C., Chi, G., Kawintiranon, K., Padden, C., Vanarsdall, R., Vraga, E., & Wang, Y. (2020). A first look at COVID-19 information and misinformation sharing on Twitter. ArXiv, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2003.13907
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UncategorizedGuidry, J., Vraga, E. K., Laestadius, L. I., Miller, C. A., Occa, A., Nan, X., Ming, H. M., Qin, Y., Fuemmeler, B. F., & Carlyle, K. E. (2020). HPV Vaccine Searches on Pinterest: Before and After Pinterest’s Actions to Moderate Content. American journal of public health, 110(S3), S305–S311. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305827
Vraga, E. K., Tully, M., & Bode, L. (2020). Empowering users to respond to misinformation about Covid-19. Media and communication (Lisboa), 8(2), 475-479. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.3200 The misinformation around Covid-19 made it particularly difficult for the scientific community to mitigate the spread of the disease as they depended on public cooperation which was being shaped by an
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UncategorizedVraga, E. K., & Bode, L. (2020). Correction as a solution for health misinformation on social media. American Journal of Public Health, 110(S3), S278-S280. https://doi.org/10.2105%2FAJPH.2020.305916 In this article, we explain Observational Correction as a means of reducing misperceptions caused by misinformation on its viewers. Observational Correction happens when a viewer, seeing someone else being corrected
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UncategorizedVraga, E., & van der Linden, S. (2020). “Chapter 8: Responding to climate science denial”. In Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved Oct 3, 2022, from https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781789900392/9781789900392.00015.xml
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