TY - CHAP
T1 - Modeling the Dynamic Process and Adverse Effects of Misinformation
AU - Lo, Ven-hwei
AU - Wei, Ran
PY - 2023/9/8
Y1 - 2023/9/8
N2 - Building on the bivariate and multivariate analyses presented in Chapters 4–10, we further explore in this chapter the process and effects of misinformation about COVID with a holistic modeling approach. Four structural models were proposed and tested with the pooled data collected from Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Results consistently underscore the important role of access to digital information in influencing the degree of encountering COVID-19 misinformation across the four cities, which affects a range of cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral outcomes. In addition, trust in government was found to be a moderator that interacts with exposure to misinformation in jointly influencing the respondents’ projected harms of misinformation on others and their support for action to restrict it. We explain the causal mechanisms of mediators such as elaborations, emotions elicited by misinformation, and presumed influence.
AB - Building on the bivariate and multivariate analyses presented in Chapters 4–10, we further explore in this chapter the process and effects of misinformation about COVID with a holistic modeling approach. Four structural models were proposed and tested with the pooled data collected from Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Results consistently underscore the important role of access to digital information in influencing the degree of encountering COVID-19 misinformation across the four cities, which affects a range of cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral outcomes. In addition, trust in government was found to be a moderator that interacts with exposure to misinformation in jointly influencing the respondents’ projected harms of misinformation on others and their support for action to restrict it. We explain the causal mechanisms of mediators such as elaborations, emotions elicited by misinformation, and presumed influence.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Miscommunicating-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-An-Asian-Perspective/Dong-Huang-Huang-Liang-Lo-Wang-Wei/p/book/9781032408880
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85169390599&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003355984-11
DO - 10.4324/9781003355984-11
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781032408880
SN - 9781032410470
T3 - Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
SP - 196
EP - 207
BT - Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic
A2 - Wei, Ran
PB - Routledge
CY - London and New York
ER -