rTag: a participatory news platform for critical reading of unverified news

Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society Pub Date : 2020-10-25 DOI:10.1145/3419249.3421249

J. Park, Young-ae Hahn

{"title":"rTag: a participatory news platform for critical reading of unverified news","authors":"J. Park, Young-ae Hahn","doi":"10.1145/3419249.3421249","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The consumption and circulation of fake news are aggravated by readers whose critical reflection abilities are undermined. Expert fact-checking, however, can take at least a few hours during which time readers might be exposed to less-than-factual articles. This research proposes the rTag view mobile news application user interface that assists readers to recognise potential falsehood in the news, by comparing related articles. In the rTag view, conceivably incorrect sentences in an article are linked with different information; the sentences where other articles are linked are displayed struck through. A study of comparing the regular and rTag views was conducted. The results confirmed that the readers who read in the rTag view recognised facts significantly better than the control group. Though the rTag view alone does not verify the factuality of news, but they suggest readers which parts of the news need to be fact-checked while encourage them to be proactive in critical reading of the news.","PeriodicalId":315800,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3419249.3421249","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Abstract

The consumption and circulation of fake news are aggravated by readers whose critical reflection abilities are undermined. Expert fact-checking, however, can take at least a few hours during which time readers might be exposed to less-than-factual articles. This research proposes the rTag view mobile news application user interface that assists readers to recognise potential falsehood in the news, by comparing related articles. In the rTag view, conceivably incorrect sentences in an article are linked with different information; the sentences where other articles are linked are displayed struck through. A study of comparing the regular and rTag views was conducted. The results confirmed that the readers who read in the rTag view recognised facts significantly better than the control group. Though the rTag view alone does not verify the factuality of news, but they suggest readers which parts of the news need to be fact-checked while encourage them to be proactive in critical reading of the news.

查看原文本刊更多论文

rTag:对未经证实的新闻进行批判性阅读的参与式新闻平台

读者的批判性反思能力被削弱，加剧了假新闻的消费和传播。然而，专家的事实核查至少需要几个小时，在此期间，读者可能会接触到与事实不符的文章。本研究提出了rTag视图移动新闻应用程序用户界面，通过比较相关文章，帮助读者识别新闻中潜在的虚假信息。在rTag的观点中，文章中可能不正确的句子与不同的信息联系在一起;与其他文章有链接的句子被划掉。对常规视图和rTag视图进行了比较研究。结果证实，在rTag视图下阅读的人比对照组更能识别事实。虽然rTag的观点本身并不能验证新闻的真实性，但他们建议读者哪些部分的新闻需要核实事实，同时鼓励他们积极主动地批判性阅读新闻。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society

自引率

0.00%

发文量