Building sociality through sharing: Seniors' perspectives on misinformation

Mahika Wason; Sharmistha Swasti Gupta; Shriram Venkatraman; Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

doi:10.1145/3292522.3326052

Building sociality through sharing: Seniors' perspectives on misinformation

Mahika Wason, Sharmistha Swasti Gupta, Shriram Venkatraman, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi

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Abstract

This paper attempts to understand the perspectives of the seniors (aged 65 years and above) on misinformation in the Indian context. Interviews with 33 seniors who use social media regularly revealed three themes. The seniors viewed and rationalized sharing news irrespective of its veracity as a process of building sociality. Sharing information was also based on the logic of superimposing information with an epistemic ascription to the networks from where they received it. Finally, a kind of normative dualism becomes apparent from an acknowledgment of the role they may play in the spread of misinformation as agents on the one hand and a resounding need to stop it on the other due to its potential social ramifications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WebSci 2019 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Web Science
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	26. Jun 2019
Pages	321-322
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-6202-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3292522.3326052
Publication status	Published - 26. Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2019 - Boston, United States Duration: 30. Jun 2019 → 3. Jul 2019

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Conference	11th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	30/06/2019 → 03/07/2019
Sponsor	ACM SIGWEB

Keywords

Misinformation
Seniors
Sharing
Social Media
Sociality

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Wason, M, Gupta, SS, Venkatraman, S & Kumaraguru, P 2019, Building sociality through sharing: Seniors' perspectives on misinformation. in WebSci 2019 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Web Science. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 321-322, 11th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2019, Boston, United States, 30/06/2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292522.3326052

Building sociality through sharing: Seniors' perspectives on misinformation. / Wason, Mahika; Gupta, Sharmistha Swasti; Venkatraman, Shriram et al.
WebSci 2019 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Web Science. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 321-322.

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