What's Going on in the Korean Peninsula? A Study on Perception and Influence of South and North Korea-Related Fake News
- Authors
- Oh, Yoo Jung; Ryu, Ji Youn; Park, Hee Sun
- Issue Date
- 2020
- Publisher
- USC ANNENBERG PRESS
- Keywords
- fake news; inter-Korean relations; the third-person effect (TPE); the first-person effect (FPE); media censorship
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, v.14, pp.1463 - 1479
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION
- Volume
- 14
- Start Page
- 1463
- End Page
- 1479
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/59035
- ISSN
- 1932-8036
- Abstract
- Fake news, which contains false information to deceive audiences, may potentially influence inter-Korean relations. Two studies probe into South Koreans' experience of and reaction to fake news exposure, and their ability to distinguish fake news from real news. Study 1 reveals that people have negative attitudes for fake news and perceive its impact to be greater on others than on themselves. Study 2 tests hypotheses based on the third-person effect (TPE) and the first-person effect (FPE), discovering that South Koreans display the TPE on North Korea-related fake news and advocate fake news censorship. It also examines Korean citizens' ability to identify North Korea-related fake news and finds that most people fail to do so accurately despite considering that fake news will have a relatively small impact on themselves. We conclude that different agents should cooperate to reduce the negative impact of fake news.
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