4 papers
Building Resilience to Misinformation: A Cross-National Development of the Digital Media and Information Literacy Scale (DMILS)
Sijia Qian, Cuihua Shen, Huiyi Wang +1
Amid growing concern about information quality and credibility in digital media environments, researchers and educators still lack a concise, comprehensive yet psychometrically sou…
Closing the Motivation Gap: Incentives Enhance Visual Misinformation Discernment and Verification
Sijia Qian, Cuihua Shen, Jingwen Zhang +1
Cheapfakes, or real images presented misleadingly or in unrelated contexts, are an increasingly prominent form of visual misinformation. While media literacy interventions can enha…
Large Language Model-Informed Feature Discovery Improves Prediction and Interpretation of Credibility Perceptions of Visual Content
Yilang Peng, Sijia Qian, Yingdan Lu +1
In today's visually dominated social media landscape, predicting the perceived credibility of visual content and understanding what drives human judgment are crucial for countering…
Crafting Synthetic Realities: Examining Visual Realism and Misinformation Potential of Photorealistic AI-Generated Images
Qiyao Peng, Yingdan Lu, Yilang Peng +3
Advances in generative models have created Artificial Intelligence-Generated Images (AIGIs) nearly indistinguishable from real photographs. Leveraging a large corpus of 30,824 AIGI…