Title
Persuasion strategies of misinformation-containing posts in the social media
Abstract
•Pathos strategies are found to be the most common acts of persuasion in misinformation-containing posts.•Gratitude, reciprocity, and pathos-negative are frequently used together in misinformation-containing posts.•The usage of persuasion strategies are correlated with topic, expected actions, and digital elements of a misinformation-containing post.•Misinformation-containing posts using pathos-other, storytelling and repetition strategy show positive effects on invoking user responses.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102665
Information Processing & Management
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Misinformation,Persuasion strategy,Aristotle's rhetorical theory,Social media,Online social network
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
0306-4573
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sijing Chen1151.25
Lu Xiao2389.44
Jin Mao34611.47