Truth Default or Generalized Skepticism? The Role of Overconfidence in the Relationship Between Social Media News Use and Traditional Media Use

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI:10.1177/20563051251315255

Taewoo Kang, Kjerstin Thorson, Chankyung Pak

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Abstract

This article examines a model positing that overconfidence in political understanding resulting from social media use for news and politics hampers traditional media use. It confirms a positive relationship between Facebook political information experiences and overconfidence in political understanding. However, contrary to expectations, there is a positive relationship between overconfidence and traditional media use. An exploratory post hoc analysis, viewed through the lens of truth vs. false-default orientations, suggests overconfident users might use traditional news outlets to confirm their sense of knowledge, thereby exhibiting a false-default orientation on social media political information.

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默认真理还是普遍怀疑？过度自信在社交媒体新闻使用与传统媒体使用关系中的作用

本文研究了一个模型，该模型假设由于社交媒体用于新闻和政治而导致的对政治理解的过度自信阻碍了传统媒体的使用。它证实了Facebook政治信息体验与政治理解过度自信之间的正相关关系。然而，与预期相反，过度自信与传统媒体使用之间存在正相关关系。一项探索性事后分析，通过真相与虚假默认取向的视角来看，表明过度自信的用户可能会使用传统新闻媒体来确认他们的知识感，从而在社交媒体政治信息上表现出虚假默认取向。

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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.