Paper Info
Title
An Analysis Of Rumor And Counter-Rumor Messages In Social Media
Abstract
Social media platforms are one of the fastest ways to disseminate information but they have also been used as a means to spread rumors. If left unchecked, rumors have serious consequences. Counter-rumors, messages used to refute rumors, are an important means of rumor curtailment. The objective of this paper is to examine the types of rumor and counter-rumor messages generated in Twitter in response to the falsely reported death of a politician, Lee Kuan Yew, who was Singapore's first Prime Minister. Our content analysis of 4321Twitter tweets about Lee's death revealed six categories of rumor messages, four categories of counter-rumor messages and two categories belonging to neither type. Interestingly, there were more counter-rumor messages than rumor messages. Our results thus suggest that, at least in the context of our study, online users do make an attempt to stop the spread of false rumors through counter-rumors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-70232-2_22
DIGITAL LIBRARIES: DATA, INFORMATION, AND KNOWLEDGE FOR DIGITAL LIVES
Keywords
Field
DocType
Rumor correction, Counter rumor, Social media, Death hoax, Content analysis, Twitter
Content analysis,Internet privacy,Social media,Information retrieval,Computer science,Neither type,Rumor,Dissemination
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10647
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dion Hoe-Lian Goh1966115.29
Alton Y. K. Chua238235.62
Hanyu Shi300.34
Wenju Wei400.34
Haiyan Wang53916.48
Ee-Peng Lim65889754.17