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| Thema: Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake, Stanford Study Finds | Antwort auf: Halt die Presse! von Icheherntion | |
| [http://www.wsj.com/articles/most-students-dont-know-when-news-is-fake-stanford-study-finds-1479752576] Some 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled “sponsored content” and a real news story on a website, according to a Stanford University study of 7,804 students from middle school through college. By middle school, preteens are online 7-1/2 hours a day outside of school, research shows. Many students multitask by texting, reading and watching video at once, hampering the concentration needed to question content and think deeply, says Yalda T. Uhls, a research psychologist at the Children’s Digital Media Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. By age 18, 88% of young adults regularly get news from Facebook and other social media, according to a 2015 study of 1,045 adults ages 18 to 34 by the Media Insight Project. This risks creating an “echo chamber effect,” because social media tends to feed users news items similar to those they’ve read before, says Walter C. Parker, a professor of education at the University of Washington, Seattle. "Echo Chamber" habe ich in den letzten Jahren nur in Verbindung der "Diskussionskultur" auf Reddit gehört; im Zuge der US-Wahl habe den nun schon mehrfach auf NDR Info im Radio beim Autofahren gehört (im Auto läuft entweder MP3 CD oder NDR Info) in Bezug auf Facebook News Feed & co. Der Zug scheint aber schon lange abgefahren. Dazu auch halb passend: |
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