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  • Social media research
  • Digital media literacy
  • Public health communication

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  • Misinformation on social media poses a significant threat to public health.
  • Evaluating social media content requires moving beyond binary fake/fact classifications.
  • A deeper understanding of user evaluation schemas is essential for effective interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To enhance understanding of how users evaluate social media information.
  • To develop and validate a measurement instrument for social media realism.
  • To identify diverse schemas users employ for content evaluation.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted qualitative focus groups (n=48) to explore user evaluation schemas.
  • Surveyed a national sample of social media users (n=442) to validate findings.
  • Utilized constant comparison analysis for qualitative data and confirmatory factor analyses for quantitative data.

Main Results:

  • Identified five dimensions of social media reality evaluation: falsity, naturality, authenticity, resonance, and social assurance.
  • These dimensions correlate with specific social media usage patterns and user behaviors.
  • Authenticity strongly aligns with existing social media realism measures; naturality links to enjoyment; resonance predicts reflective thinking; social assurance relates to addictive use; falsity correlates with usage frequency and engagement.

Conclusions:

  • The identified schemas broaden the scope beyond simple fake/fact judgments.
  • Understanding the goals, contexts, and outcomes associated with these schemas can inform digital media literacy.
  • A validated social media reality measure can guide the development of targeted interventions for public health issues.