Saifuddin Ahmed , Yifei Wang , Adeline Wei Ting Bee
{"title":"Adjusting news accuracy perceptions after deepfakes exposure: Evidence from a non-Western context","authors":"Saifuddin Ahmed , Yifei Wang , Adeline Wei Ting Bee","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2023.102047","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Empirical studies examining if and how deepfakes would evoke news skepticism and discredit social trust in societies with low levels of digital literacy are limited. Recognizing the gap in the literature, this study conducts a survey experiment in India. We test whether individuals adjust their perceptions of news accuracy after being exposed to a deepfake about the subject of the news. Furthermore, we examine if cognitive ability will play a critical role in distinguishing how participants readjust their perceptions of news accuracy. In line with the propositions, we find that those exposed to a malicious deepfake video are primed to lower their initial positive news accuracy perceptions (featuring the subject) than those exposed to an informational video (featuring the subject). We also observe that the adjustments of news accuracy perceptions after being exposed to a deepfake are not dependent on the cognitive ability of social media news users. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 102047"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49752552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The correlation between broadband prices and the digital divide: A survey of Taiwan’s north coast","authors":"Shui-Lien Chen , Chih-Jen Chen , Yung-Hsin Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102033","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102033","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study highlights the importance of differentiating between urban and rural areas when exploring broadband issues that matter to consumers and statistically sampling accordingly. To test the effectiveness of rural broadband programmes in improving internet usage, this study is based on a selection of five geographically adjacent administrative districts with varying population densities.</p><p>During a survey using the double-bounded dichotomous choice model to measure people’s WTP, two research hypotheses were tested and verified through regression analysis. The results showed that consumers living in rural areas are significantly less willing to pay for broadband than those living in urban areas, which contradicts the findings of the study by Worden and Hambly (2022) conducted in Canada.</p><p>Additionally, the significant t value test results found in this study showed that consumers are willing to pay more for download bandwidth than for upload bandwidth for every dollar spent. This result indicates that consumers have a clear preference for one over the other and highlights significant differences in their choices.</p><p>In particular, the results of the willingness-to-pay survey revealed that the incumbent operator yield opposite results in the regression coefficients for their willingness to pay for each unit of download bandwidth and upload bandwidth. This result may be due to differences in the design of internet products offered by the two operators.</p><p>Given the inevitable reality that income generated by service operators in rural areas is lower than that in urban areas, there is a need to study price differentials between urban and rural areas in order to promote greater use of broadband internet in rural areas in the context of the adoption of a single price throughout the region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 102033"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44206523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Janneke M. Schokkenbroek , Koen Ponnet , Joris Van Ouytsel , Michel Walrave , Wim Hardyns
{"title":"Receive, forward, repeat: The link between sexting intention, sexting attitudes, and non-consensual sexting behaviours","authors":"Janneke M. Schokkenbroek , Koen Ponnet , Joris Van Ouytsel , Michel Walrave , Wim Hardyns","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sexting concerns the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages or photos (i.e., ‘sexts’) through electronic means. When sexts are received or forwarded without the consent of the original sender, this is called <em>non-consensual sexting</em>. Our study set out to increase our understanding as to why individuals engage in non-consensual sext forwarding, by examining the role of sexting intentions, attitudes, and experience with non-consensual sext receiving. Data were collected through a cross-sectional survey among a sample of 218 Belgian adults. Of this total sample, 169 (<em>M</em><sub>age</sub><span> = 25.85 years, 73.4% women) respondents had at least once received a sext from someone, resulting in a subsample of 169 respondents for the present study. Correlation analyses showed that non-consensual forwarding of sexts was significantly positively linked to stronger attitudes towards the risks of sexting and to experiences of non-consensual sext receiving. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that non-consensual sext forwarding was significantly linked to negative attitudes about sexting, but that this significant link disappeared when non-consensual sext receiving was included as a predictor in the model. Thus, our findings show that non-consensual sext forwarding is primarily linked to non-consensual sext receiving, suggesting that individuals who experience non-consensual sexting as a recipient are inclined to non-consensually forward a sext themselves regardless of their attitudes about (the risks of) sexting. This suggests that non-consensual sexting behaviours may be driven by social learning and/or impulsive decision-making processes, indicating an important avenue for future research.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 102036"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49609555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fathima Nishara Abdeen, Sara Shirowzhan, Samad M.E. Sepasgozar
{"title":"Citizen-centric digital twin development with machine learning and interfaces for maintaining urban infrastructure","authors":"Fathima Nishara Abdeen, Sara Shirowzhan, Samad M.E. Sepasgozar","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Serious interoperability challenges prevent the stakeholders of infrastructure projects and citizens as the final users, from interacting with each other and helping maintain a project over its lifetime. This paper focuses on macro-scale digital twins collecting stakeholders’ feedback as the end users of the infrastructure and its service buildings. The aim is to examine various technologies for developing a CCDT and use the information processed to maintain and manage infrastructure services. This involves a systematic review, investigating technologies for data acquisition, data processing, and interface development to improve CCDT capabilities. Among the 89 selected articles, 16% of the sample dataset directly focused on users’ engagement. When considering data acquisition technologies, the open data platforms (37% of the sample dataset), remote sensors (37%), and IoT sensors (8%) ensure the dynamic capabilities of the digital twin. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) and social sensing are two prominent technologies that encourage citizen engagement. The number of articles considering the use of segmentation and classification and object detection and tracking algorithms at city-scale digital twins is significant, accounting for 25% and 24% of all articles discussing various algorithms. Further, the study carried out a comprehensive analysis of application programming interfaces (APIs) while presenting their specifications, features, and applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 102032"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41505060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combating health misinformation on social media through fact-checking: The effect of threat appraisal, coping appraisal, and empathy","authors":"Mingfei Sun , Xiaoyue Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social media users’ active fact-checking as a way to restrain health misinformation has received considerable attention. With the protection motivation theory (PMT), this study divided fact-checking into verification and correction and analyzed the influence of threat and coping appraisal on health misinformation verification and correction intentions. Furthermore, the moderating effect of empathy was analyzed based on the prosocial characteristics of fact-checking. A total of 341 participants completed an online survey. The results of regression analysis showed that higher perceived reward and coping efficiency were associated with higher verification intention. Empathy positively moderated the effect of perceived threat on verification. The perceived threat, reward, and coping efficiency increased users’ intention to correct health misinformation. Moreover, findings also demonstrated that users would combine threat and coping appraisal to decide their fact-checking intention. The study extends PMT theory by incorporating users’ ability to empathize with others’ risk situations and uncovers a cognitive risk game process for health misinformation verification and correction on social media.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 102031"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48398014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adoption of 5G in developing economies: A supply side perspective from India","authors":"Shikha Sargam , Ruchita Gupta , Rajesh Sharma , Karuna Jain","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The current 3G and 4G telecom technologies present challenges in the form of network congestion, low average revenue per user and limited applications across different industries. This is driving the need for faster adoption and implementation of 5G technologies. Researchers have largely focused on the technical aspects of 5G and its adoption on the demand side, while the focus on the supply side—business implications, enablers and barriers to adoption for the telecom service providers (TSPs)—is limited. A supply side perspective on 5G adoption in developing economies needs more attention as their ecosystem of technology deployment is different from that of developed economies. India being one of the prominent developing countries and the second largest telecom market in the world, with 5G adoption at a nascent stage, is an apt case for studying enablers and barriers. Thus, this exploratory study focuses on identifying the factors for adoption of 5G by TSPs. The study makes theoretical contributions to literature by identifying seven unique factors and eight unique subfactors and proposing a new 5G adoption model for TSPs. Recommendations are provided to aid policy and decision-makers in designing policy interventions and strategies for faster 5G adoption from the supply side of the diverse ecosystem.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 102034"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46508027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zongmin Li , Ye Zhao , Xinyu Du , Shihang Wang , Yanfang Ma , Yi Zhang
{"title":"How does the development of COVID-19 affect the public's engagement to fake news rebuttal microblogs?","authors":"Zongmin Li , Ye Zhao , Xinyu Du , Shihang Wang , Yanfang Ma , Yi Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>COVID-19 infodemics are intertwined with the dynamic development of the pandemic. During infodemics, the challenges and difficulties are to reveal the dynamic evolution of public’s engagement to fake news rebuttals information and break through the bottleneck of previous static research. Motivated by this, fake news rebuttals engagement index (FNREI) is proposed to state the public engagement towards COVID-19 related fake news rebuttals. A total of 19,603 fake news rebuttals microblogs from Weibo are divided into four categories by latent dirichlet allocation (LDA): “status and confirmed cases of COVID-19″, ”transmission mode and living conditions of coronavirus“, ”prevention and detection of COVID-19″ and “overseas fake news and derivative events”. Time-varying parameter vector auto-regressive model (TVP-VAR) is used to explore the time-varying impact of the COVID-19 life cycle and the appearance of virus mutation (Delta, Omicron) on four categories of FNREI time series. The research results suggest that under the impact of different major events during the COVID-19 life cycle, the public's engagement to different categories of COVID-19 related fake news has different priorities, its duration and intensity is dynamically changing. This study explores the evolution of individuals’ engagement to fake news rebuttals information during the COVID-19 and provides a basis for improving fake news governance effectiveness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 102029"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41682126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yifeng Philip Chen , Edward J. Oughton , Jakub Zagdanski , Maggie Mo Jia , Pete Tyler
{"title":"Crowdsourced data indicates broadband has a positive impact on local business creation","authors":"Yifeng Philip Chen , Edward J. Oughton , Jakub Zagdanski , Maggie Mo Jia , Pete Tyler","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2023.102035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Broadband connectivity<span> is regarded as generally having a positive macroeconomic effect, but we lack evidence as to how it affects key economic activity metrics, such as firm creation, at a very local level. This analysis models the impact of broadband Next Generation Access (NGA) on new business creation at the local level over the 2011–2015 period in England, United Kingdom, using high-resolution panel data. After controlling for a range of factors, we find that faster broadband speeds brought by NGA technologies have a positive effect on the rate of business growth. We find that in England between 2011 and 2015, on average a one percentage increase in download speeds is associated with a 0.0574 percentage point increase in the annual growth rate of business establishments. The primary hypothesised mechanism behind the estimated relationship is the enabling effect that faster broadband speeds have on innovative business models based on new digital technologies and services. Entrepreneurs either sought appropriate locations that offer high quality broadband infrastructure (contributing to new business establishment growth), or potentially enjoyed a competitive advantage (resulting in a higher survival rate). The findings of this study suggest that aspiring to reach universal high–capacity broadband connectivity is economically desirable, especially as the costs of delivering broadband services decline.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 102035"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49752590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca Scheffauer , Timilehin Durotoye , Homero Gil de Zúñiga
{"title":"Incidental news exposure and political consumerism – Exploring nuances","authors":"Rebecca Scheffauer , Timilehin Durotoye , Homero Gil de Zúñiga","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102044","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the rise of the internet and social media, many people find their news online, often only incidentally. Burgeoning research in this line of inquiry has explored the connection between incidental exposure to news (INE) and participatory political behaviors. However, certain peculiarities still need to be addressed in this area. Working with panel survey data from the United States, in this study, we uncover the relationship between incidental news exposure and political consumerism as well as nuances thereof. While there is a positive connection between overall INE and consumerism, our findings reveal that different effects emerge depending on the place of incidental exposure (on social media, traditional media, or online), thus highlighting that the focus on social media INE applied in many studies needs to be broadened. Furthermore, we find differences between those who boycott and buycott, challenging the traditional composition of the political consumerism measurement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 102044"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44842929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"User perception and self-disclosure towards an AI psychotherapy chatbot according to the anthropomorphism of its profile picture","authors":"Jieon Lee , Daeho Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.tele.2023.102052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2023.102052","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Studies have displayed that the favorable image of a psychotherapist increases the therapy outcome by encouraging the self-disclosure of clients. Recently, in a situation where AI psychotherapy chatbots were actively employed, this study examines how the degree of anthropomorphism in profile pictures of AI psychotherapy chatbots (company logo, robot character, human character, real human photo) affects user self-disclosure. Furthermore, this study verifies that the relationship between anthropomorphism and self-disclosure is mediated by the user’s liking and mind perception towards the chatbot. The study found that the anthropomorphism of the psychotherapy chatbot profile picture did not directly affect the user’s self-disclosure, and the higher the degree of anthropomorphism of the profile picture, the more self-disclosure when the user had a favorable feeling for the chatbot. On the other hand, when the user perceived the chatbot to have thoughts and emotions, the higher the degree of anthropomorphism of the profile picture, the lower the degree of self-disclosure. This study has significance in examining the user’s perception according to the chatbot profile picture given the situation in which a psychotherapy chatbot will be used in the actual market.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48257,"journal":{"name":"Telematics and Informatics","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 102052"},"PeriodicalIF":8.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49759849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}