Their Truth is Out There: Scientific (Dis)trust and Alternative Epistemology in Online Health Groups

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI:10.1177/20563051241269288

Megan E. Cullinan, Melissa Zimdars, Kilhoe Na

引用次数: 0

Abstract

The information-sharing practices within alternative health social media groups makes them important spaces for analyzing and understanding the factors shaping the online spread of alternative health and health science (mis)information. Through interviews and observation of participants in alternative health groups on both Facebook and Reddit, we explore how people use health science information from government, health, and news sources, alternative health information from social media groups, and their own personal experiences and concerns to define informational (dis)trustworthiness. We identify factors that lead participants to (dis)trust health science information and explore how members assess the (dis)trustworthiness of health science information using an alternative epistemology. This alternative epistemology, or “their science,” demonstrates a trust in science unless or until it contradicts members’ experiences, beliefs, contextual concerns, or their own “research” practices.

查看原文本刊更多论文

他们的真相就在那里：在线健康团体中的科学（不）信任和另类认识论

另类健康社交媒体群组内的信息分享行为使其成为分析和了解影响另类健康和健康科学（错误）信息在线传播的因素的重要场所。通过对 Facebook 和 Reddit 上另类健康群组参与者的访谈和观察，我们探讨了人们如何利用来自政府、卫生和新闻来源的健康科学信息、来自社交媒体群组的另类健康信息，以及他们自己的个人经历和担忧来界定信息的（失）信度。我们确定了导致参与者（不）信任健康科学信息的因素，并探讨了参与者如何使用另一种认识论来评估健康科学信息的（不）可信度。这种另类认识论或 "他们的科学 "显示了对科学的信任，除非或直到科学与参与者的经验、信仰、背景问题或他们自己的 "研究 "实践相矛盾。

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

Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.