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How Could Egyptian Young Adults Detect False Information About COVID-19 on Social Media Platforms?

How Could Egyptian Young Adults Detect False Information About COVID-19 on Social Media Platforms?

Heba Atef Labeeb
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781799889731|ISBN10: 1799889734|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799889748|EISBN13: 9781799889755
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8973-1.ch008
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Labeeb, Heba Atef. "How Could Egyptian Young Adults Detect False Information About COVID-19 on Social Media Platforms?." Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics, edited by Amal Adel Abdrabo and Aly Abdel Razek Galaby, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 155-177. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8973-1.ch008

APA

Labeeb, H. A. (2022). How Could Egyptian Young Adults Detect False Information About COVID-19 on Social Media Platforms?. In A. Abdrabo & A. Galaby (Eds.), Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics (pp. 155-177). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8973-1.ch008

Chicago

Labeeb, Heba Atef. "How Could Egyptian Young Adults Detect False Information About COVID-19 on Social Media Platforms?." In Societal Resilience and Response to Contagious Diseases and Pandemics, edited by Amal Adel Abdrabo and Aly Abdel Razek Galaby, 155-177. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8973-1.ch008

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Abstract

This chapter attempts to identify the adaptive capacities of young adults dealing with misleading information about Covid-19 on social media platforms and how they were able to maintain detecting misleading posts about Covid-19. Therefore, this chapter was keen to survey 204 individuals to find out how young people could deal with misleading information on social media platforms and the tools they use to verify information, considering their new media literacy and the rate of their usage of social media platforms, as they are important variables in creating an analytical critical mindset. Results indicated that the presence of a high level of new media literacy among the sample contributed greatly to their knowledge and use of tools for verifying information on social media platforms, and there was a positive correlation between the rate of usage of social media platforms and two-dimensions of new media literacy: functional prosumption and critical prosumption.

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