Observed Correction - How We Can All Respond to Misinformation on Social Media

In Observed Correction, Leticia Bode and Emily K. Vraga consider both the power of and the barriers to "observed correction"--users witnessing other users correct misinformation on social media. Bode and Vraga argue that when people view others directly and publicly correcting misinformation on social media, their understanding of the topic becomes more accurate. Drawing on experiments, surveys, and interviews with social media users, health professionals, fact checkers, and platform employees, Bode and Vraga offer a set of practical recommendations for how observational correction can be implemented.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: The Theory of Observed Correction


• Chapter 3: Observed Correction Increases Accuracy


• Chapter 4: Correction Recall


• Chapter 5: Perception of Correction


• Chapter 6: Conflicted Correctors


• Chapter 7: Motivating Correction


• Chapter 8: Constrained Experts


• Chapter 9: Accessible Curated Evidence


• Chapter 10: Conclusions


• Notes


• References


• Index

About the author

Leticia Bode is a Professor in the Communication, Culture, and Technology program at Georgetown University, and the inaugural Research Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute. She researches the intersection of communication, technology, attitudes, and behavior, emphasizing the role communication technologies may play in the acquisition, use, effects, and implications of both information and misinformation.

Emily K. Vraga is the Don and Carole Larson Professor in Health Communication at the University of Minnesota's Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her research tests methods to identify and correct misinformation on social media, to improve audience resiliency through news literacy training, and to encourage attention to more diverse content.

Product details

• Authors: Leticia Bode, Leticia (Professor in the Communication Bode, Emily K. Vraga, Emily K. (Don and Carole Larson Professor in Health Communication Vraga
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.06.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9780197565902
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756590-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social media / social networking, Comparative Politics, Diplomacy, Disinformation and misinformation