Engagement and the spread of fake news: Personality Trait as moderator

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10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.34How to use a DOI?

Keywords

hoax; fake news; personality trait; engagement

Abstract

The speed of news is no longer limited. Distance and time limits do not become an obstacle in the rate of news spread. Even though the access to the information, nowadays is more accessible and fast, but there are also many another adverse offer, such as spreading rumors and fake news. Individual engagement with high intensity and have personal meaning with their social media platform could meet their need to contribute, retrieve and explore the news content and also have tendencies to spread the fake news. Previous studies have shown that personality traits play a significant role in human behavior. This study aims to investigate the roles of personality in engagement and spreading fake news behavior. Furthermore, The purpose of this study is to offer a theoretical and empirical background to explain the psychological aspects of the issue of spreading the fake news. This study conceptualizes false news as a distorted signal inconsistent with the truth. Result of this study show that personality traits with extraversion characteristic moderate personal engagement to intention for spread fake news exposures.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Gumgum Gumelar
AU  - Zarina Akbar
AU  - Erik Erik
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Engagement and the spread of fake news: Personality Trait as moderator
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Communication Science Research (ICCSR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 158
EP  - 162
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.34
DO  - 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.34
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