4,732
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Social media literacy: fake news consumption and perception of COVID-19 in Nigeria

, ORCID Icon &
Article: 2138011 | Received 28 Apr 2022, Accepted 17 Oct 2022, Published online: 16 Nov 2022

References

  • Agusi, E. R., Ijoma, S. I., Nnochin, C. S., Njoku-achu, N. O., Ignatius, C., & Meseko, C. A. (2020). Commentary the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing in Nigeria : Ignorance or defiance. Pan African Medical Journal, 35(2), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.35.2.23649
  • Ahinkorah, B. O., Ameyaw, E. K., Hagan, J. E., Jr, Seidu, A., & Schack, T. (2020). Rising above misinformation or fake news in Africa : Another strategy to control COVID-19 spread. Frontiers in Communication, 5(45), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00045
  • Ahmed, M. O., & Aondover, E. M. (2022). Assessment of the spread of fake news of Covid-19 amongst social media users in Kano State, Nigeria. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 100189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100189
  • Ajakaiye, O. O. P., & Dean, O. J. (2019). Hate speech and fake news: A study of meanings and perceptions in Nigerian political culture. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC & ENGINEERING RESEARCH, 10(5), 1670–1684. https://doi.org/10.14299/ijser.2019.05.07
  • Allcott, H., & Gentzkow, M. (2017). Social media and fake news in the 2016 election. 31(2), 211–236.
  • Al-Naam, Y. A., Elsafi, S. H., Alkharraz, Z. S., Almaqati, T. N., Almusabi, S. S., Albusaili, S., Mashwal, F. A., & Al, E. M. (2022). Factors related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Saudi Arabia. Public Health in Practice, 3, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2022.100258
  • Amzat, J., Aminu, K., Kolo, V. I., Akinyele, A. A., Ogundairo, J. A., & Danjibo, M. C. (2020). International journal of infectious diseases coronavirus outbreak in Nigeria : Burden and socio-medical response during the fi rst 100 days. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 98, 218–224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.067
  • Aondover, E. M. (2020). Internet meme as a campaign tool to the fight against covid-19 in Nigeria. Global Journal of Human-Social Science Research, 20(6), 27–39.
  • Aondover, E. M., & Phillips, D. (2020). Media framing of covid-19 pandemic: A study of daily trust and vanguard newspapers in Nigeria. ASJ. International Journal of Health, Safety and Environment (IJHSE), 6(5), 588–596.
  • Aondover, E. M., Usman, B., & Ridwanullah, A. O. (2022). Social media literacy : Fake news consumption and perception of covid-19 in Nigeria. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1603850/v1
  • Aondover, E. M., Yar’Adua, S. M., & Aondover, P. O. (2022). Information seeking behavior on Covid-19 vaccine among residents of Fagge Local Government Area of Kano, Nigeria. Research Square, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1898209/v1
  • Banas, J. A., & Rains, S. A. (2015). A meta-analysis of research on inoculation theory. Communication Monographs, 77(5), 281–311. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751003758193
  • Baran, S. J., & Davis, D. K. (2012). Mass communication theory foundations, ferment, and future (6th) ed.). Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
  • Bunz, U. (2021). Investigating the relationship between social media use, big five personality, and well-being. Journal of Communication Technology, 4(3), 25–52. https://doi.org/10.51548/joctec-2021-016
  • Cascini, F., Pantovic, A., Al-Ajlouni, Y. A., Failla, G., Puleo, V., Melnyk, A., Lontano, A., & Ricciardi, W. (2022). Social media and attitudes towards a COVID-19 vaccination: A systematic review of the literature. eClinicalMedicine, 48, 101454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101454
  • Compton, J., Jackson, B., & Dimmock, J. A. (2016). Persuading others to avoid persuasion: Inoculation theory and resistant health attitudes. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(February), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00122
  • Courtney, I. (2018). In an era of fake news, information literacy has a role to play in journalism education in Ireland. Irish Communication Review, 16(1), 19–33. https://doi.org/10.21427/D73X6Q
  • Dzieciolowska, S., Hamel, D., Gadio, S., Dionne, M., Gagnon, D., Robitaille, L., Cook, E., Caron, I., Talib, A., Parkes, L., Dubé, È., & Longtin, Y. (2021). Covid-19 vaccine acceptance, hesitancy, and refusal among Canadian healthcare workers: A multicenter survey. American Journal of Infection Control, 49(9), 1152–1157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.04.079
  • Ferguson, M. J., & Bargh, J. A. (2004). How social perception can automatically influence behavior. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(1), 33–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2003.11.004
  • Finset, A., Bosworth, H., Butow, P., Gulbrandsen, P., Hulsman, R. L., Pieterse, A. H., Street, R., Tschoetschel, R., & van Weert, J. (2020). Patient education and counseling effective health communication – A key factor in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Patient Education and Counseling, 103(5), 873–876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2020.03.027
  • Hussain, S. A. E., Kilagwa, R. T., & Wok, S. (2019). The effect of message credibility on media use and perception of fake news among students. Journal of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association, 1(2), 1–21. http://pacascholars.com/journal2.html
  • Jones-jang, S. M., Mortensen, T., & Liu, J. (2019). Does media literacy help identification of fake news ? Information literacy helps, but other literacies don ’ t. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764219869406
  • Joseph, F. A. (2021). Awareness and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among adults in Lagos State, Nigeria. Journal of Social Behavior and Community Health, 5(2), 713–718. https://doi.org/10.18502/jsbch.v5i2.7826
  • Kaeophanuek, S., Jaitip, N.-S., & Nilsook, P. (2018). How to enhance digital literacy skills among information sciences students. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 8(4), 292–297. https://doi.org/10.18178/ijiet.2018.8.4.1050
  • Kastanakis, M. N., & Voyer, B. G. (2014). The effect of culture on perception and cognition : A conceptual framework. Journal of Business Research, 67(4), 425–433.
  • Lee, S. K., Lindsey, N. J., & Kim, K. S. (2017). The effects of news consumption via social media and news information overload on perceptions of journalistic norms and practices. Computers in Human Behavior, 75(October), 254–263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.007
  • Lucia, V. C., Kelekar, A., & Afonso, N. M. (2021). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among medical students. Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom), 43(3), 445–449. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaa230
  • Martens, B., Aguiar, L., Gomez-herrera, E., & Mueller-langer, F. (2018). JRC Digital Economy Working Paper 2018-02 The digital transformation of news media and the rise of disinformation and fake news An economic perspective (Issue April).
  • McGuire, W. J. (1961). The effectiveness of supportive and refutational defenses in immunizing and restoring beliefs against persuasion. Sociometry, 24(2), 184–197. https://doi.org/10.2307/2786067
  • Moscadelli, A., Albora, G., Biamonte, M. A., Giorgetti, D., Innocenzio, M., Paoli, S., Lorini, C., Bonanni, P., & Bonaccorsi, G. (2020a). Fake news and covid-19 in Italy : Results of a quantitative observational study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(16), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165850
  • Moscadelli, A., Albora, G., Biamonte, M. A., Giorgetti, D., Innocenzio, M., Paoli, S., Lorini, C., Bonanni, P., & Bonaccorsi, G. (2020b). Fake news and covid-19 in Italy: Results of a quantitative observational study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(16), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165850
  • NOIPolls. (2019). Social media poll report.
  • Okoro, E. M., Abara, B. A., Umagba, A. O., Ajonye, A. A., & Isa, Z. S. (2018). A HYBRID APPROACH TO FAKE NEWS DETECTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA. Nigerian Journal of Technology, 37(2), 454–462. https://doi.org/10.4314/njt.v37i2.22
  • Panwar, C., & Arora, A. (2019a). Impact of fake news on readers’ usage behaviour for news items on Facebook and Twitter. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8(2), 2564–2568. https://doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.B1044.078219
  • Panwar, C., & Arora, A. (2019b). Impact of fake news on readers ’ Usage behaviour for news items on Facebook and Twitter. Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication, 8(2), 2564–2568. https://doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.B1044.078219
  • Pate, U. A., & Dauda, S. (2019). Social Media, fake news and influence on elections in Nigeria. In 8th Annual Meeting of the network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication (ORBICOM), Theme: Freedom of expression in the digital era.
  • Powell, L. (2018). Fake news and critical literacy.
  • Reuter, C., Hartwig, K., Kirchner, J., & Schlegel, N. (2019). Fake news perception in Germany : A representative study of people’ s attitudes and approaches to counteract disinformation. 14th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, 1–15.
  • Shu, K., Sliva, A., Wang, S., Tang, J., & Liu, H. (2016). Fake news detection on social media : A data mining perspective.
  • Ugwuanyi, S. U. (2017). Influence of fake news on public perception of Nigeria’s online newspapers. Global Journal of Human-Social Science: A Arts & Humanities - Psychology, 17(5), 1–9.
  • Vargo, C. J., Guo, L., & Amazeen, M. A. (2017). The agenda-setting power of fake news : A big data analysis of the online media landscape from 2014 to 2016. New Media & Society, 20(5), 2028–2049. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817712086
  • World Health Organisation. (2020) . A Joint statement on tourism and covid-19-UNWTO and WHO call for responsibility and coordination. WHO.