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Research on the Impact of Post-Truth News Events on People’s Media Literacy: Taking TikTok Feminist Topics as an Example

Yanlin, LiGuangdong University of Technology*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

With the development of electronic media, media communication platforms have become mass-marketed. “Technologically empowered” non-professional journalists can also publish “news” on public communication channels. The greatly lowered barrier to entry for news dissemination practitioners can lead to the emergence of poor-quality content that lacks depth, accuracy, and authority on the Internet. Therefore, through literature research and hierarchical interviews with users of the ShakeNews platform, this paper takes news events on feminist topics on the ShakeNews platform as a starting point, focusing on how the emergence of “post-truth” reversal news affects the audience’s news literacy. The specific research questions of this paper are: Does the reverse news have an impact on the audience’s news literacy? How? What are the influencing factors? Will the audience’s news literacy continue to decline under the impact of reverse news? There is an impact of reverse news events on the news literacy of the public. Specifically, it is manifested in: the impact of attitudes towards news events. The impact on the attitude of the news protagonist and the audience’s thoughts on obtaining information; The impact on the audience’s information processing skills.

Keywords: post-truth; information overload; reverse news; media literacy
Published: November 20, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/14/20230445
Volume: CHR Vol.14
pp. 163-169
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