Perceived credibility of tweets by opinion leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain

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• dc.contributor.author Besalú Casademont, Reinald, 1983-
• dc.contributor.author Pont Sorribes, Carles
• dc.contributor.author Martí-Danés, Aleix
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-01-28T08:09:14Z
• dc.date.available 2022-01-28T08:09:14Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract The informational practices of citizens, transformed by the digital sphere, pose new challenges such as misinformation and disinformation, and they also require a rethinking of the role of opinion leaders. We explored how, on Twitter, the credibility of COVID-19 news was influenced by the source of the news. We conducted a survey of a representative sample of the Spanish population (N = 2,041) who were asked to rate politician, expert, celebrity, media, and anonymous citizen tweets for credibility. The results show that the perceived credibility of tweets on COVID-19 by politicians and experts was negative and positive, respectively, when compared with tweets by the media, and also that celebrities and anonymous citizens had no impact on perceptions of credibility. We also found that news credibility was affected by respondent gender, age, occupational status, and education level. We conclude that, despite disintermediation processes, the media continue to underpin news credibility in the digital public sphere.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was funded by the Ideograma-UPF Chair of Political Communication and Democracy (https://www.upf.edu/web/catedra-ideograma) and also by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain with the project “Crisis and emergency communication on Social Media. Study of its use in Spain and design of information protocols for institutions and media (COMCRISIS)” with reference code PID2019-109064GB-I00.
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• dc.identifier.citation Besalú R, Pont-Sorribes C, Martí A. Perceived credibility of tweets by opinion leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. Int J Commun. 2021;15:5158-85.
• dc.identifier.issn 1932-8036
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52356
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
• dc.relation.ispartof The International Journal of Communication. 2021;15:5158-85.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2019-109064GB-I00
• dc.rights © 2021 (Reinald Besalú, Carles Pont-Sorribes, and Aleix Martí). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at http://ijoc.org
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd
• dc.subject.keyword Twitter
• dc.subject.keyword credibility
• dc.subject.keyword opinion leader
• dc.subject.keyword media
• dc.subject.keyword fake news
• dc.subject.keyword disinformation
• dc.subject.keyword misinformation
• dc.title Perceived credibility of tweets by opinion leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion