Contested Certainty and Credibility: The Effect of Personal Stories and Scientific Evidence in User Comments on News Story Evaluation and Relevance

IF 5.4 3区材料科学 Q2 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

ACS Applied Energy Materials Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI:10.1177/10755470221150503

Amanda Hinnant, Sisi Hu, Yoorim Hong, R. Young

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Abstract

This study examined how user comments influence perceptions of a less-controversial news story. The results of a 2 (argument direction: supporting vs. dissenting comments) × 2 (evidence type: anecdotal vs. scientific evidence referenced in comments) between-subjects factorial design experiment with a no-comments control group (N = 426) showed that comments have independent effects on the evaluation of medical science news stories on perceived relevance, uncertainty, and risk perception. Also, the types of comments interact with participants’ intellectual humility and subjective numeracy. The findings illustrate that comments may have a deleterious impact on audience perception of journalistic stories and scientific issues.

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有争议的确定性和可信度:用户评论中的个人故事和科学证据对新闻故事评估和相关性的影响

这项研究考察了用户评论如何影响人们对争议较小的新闻报道的看法。受试者与无评论对照组（N=426）之间的2（论点方向：支持与反对评论）×2（证据类型：评论中引用的轶事与科学证据）析因设计实验的结果表明，评论对医学科学新闻报道的感知相关性、不确定性和风险感知的评估具有独立影响。此外，评论的类型与参与者的智力谦逊和主观算术能力相互作用。研究结果表明，评论可能会对观众对新闻故事和科学问题的看法产生有害影响。

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来源期刊

ACS Applied Energy Materials Materials Science-Materials Chemistry

CiteScore

10.30

自引率

6.20%

发文量

1368

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications.