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News Consumption and Sharing Behaviors of Individuals in the Post-truth Era

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Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era (ECIL 2021)

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Abstract

In the post-truth era, where ambiguous information proliferates and social media facilitates its speedy dissemination, manipulation through mis/disinformation becomes widespread. A functioning democracy relies on well-informed citizens who are equipped with critical thinking, information literacy as well as news literacy skills which are necessary to sort true information/news from false. Preparation of an adequate news literacy training programme, on the other hand, requires an understanding of news consumption behaviour as well as the gaps in the skills of the target group. This study aims to investigate news consumption and sharing behaviour of university students in Turkey. Findings seem to be in line with global news consumption behaviours of young people and indicate a need for a well planned training programme which specifically addresses news verification techniques and methods.

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    The majority of the responses (63.4%) came from students at 14 different universities.

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal, İpek Şencan & Serap Kurbanoğlu

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  1. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  3. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Yurdagül Ünal

  4. Université Gustave Eiffel, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  5. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Denis Kos

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Ünal, Y., Şencan, İ., Kurbanoğlu, S. (2022). News Consumption and Sharing Behaviors of Individuals in the Post-truth Era. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Ünal, Y., Boustany, J., Kos, D. (eds) Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era. ECIL 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1533. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99885-1_2

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