Truth Default or Generalized Skepticism? The Role of Overconfidence in the Relationship Between Social Media News Use and Traditional Media Use
This article examines a model positing that overconfidence in political understanding resulting from social media use for news and politics hampers traditional media use. It confirms a positive relationship between Facebook political information experiences and overconfidence in political understand...
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| description | This article examines a model positing that overconfidence in political understanding resulting from social media use for news and politics hampers traditional media use. It confirms a positive relationship between Facebook political information experiences and overconfidence in political understanding. However, contrary to expectations, there is a positive relationship between overconfidence and traditional media use. An exploratory post hoc analysis, viewed through the lens of truth vs. false-default orientations, suggests overconfident users might use traditional news outlets to confirm their sense of knowledge, thereby exhibiting a false-default orientation on social media political information. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0a0667883748486aad505f06573323a52025-01-31T04:03:19ZengSAGE PublishingSocial Media + Society2056-30512025-01-011110.1177/20563051251315255Truth Default or Generalized Skepticism? The Role of Overconfidence in the Relationship Between Social Media News Use and Traditional Media UseTaewoo Kang0Kjerstin Thorson1Chankyung Pak2College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, USACollege of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, USADepartment of Media and Communication, Kyungpook National University, South KoreaThis article examines a model positing that overconfidence in political understanding resulting from social media use for news and politics hampers traditional media use. It confirms a positive relationship between Facebook political information experiences and overconfidence in political understanding. However, contrary to expectations, there is a positive relationship between overconfidence and traditional media use. An exploratory post hoc analysis, viewed through the lens of truth vs. false-default orientations, suggests overconfident users might use traditional news outlets to confirm their sense of knowledge, thereby exhibiting a false-default orientation on social media political information.https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251315255 |
| spellingShingle | Taewoo Kang Kjerstin Thorson Chankyung Pak Truth Default or Generalized Skepticism? The Role of Overconfidence in the Relationship Between Social Media News Use and Traditional Media Use Social Media + Society |
| title | Truth Default or Generalized Skepticism? The Role of Overconfidence in the Relationship Between Social Media News Use and Traditional Media Use |
| title_full | Truth Default or Generalized Skepticism? The Role of Overconfidence in the Relationship Between Social Media News Use and Traditional Media Use |
| title_fullStr | Truth Default or Generalized Skepticism? The Role of Overconfidence in the Relationship Between Social Media News Use and Traditional Media Use |
| title_full_unstemmed | Truth Default or Generalized Skepticism? The Role of Overconfidence in the Relationship Between Social Media News Use and Traditional Media Use |
| title_short | Truth Default or Generalized Skepticism? The Role of Overconfidence in the Relationship Between Social Media News Use and Traditional Media Use |
| title_sort | truth default or generalized skepticism the role of overconfidence in the relationship between social media news use and traditional media use |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251315255 |
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