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Information literacy competence in curtailing fake news about the COVID-19 pandemic among undergraduates in Nigeria
Reference Services Review ( IF 0.933 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 , DOI: 10.1108/rsr-06-2020-0037
Magnus Osahon Igbinovia , Omorodion Okuonghae , John Oluwaseye Adebayo

Purpose

The continuous spread of the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has generated public health concern with avalanche of information accompanied by series of fake news. Thus, this study examined the effect of Information Literacy Competency (ILC) in curtailing the spread of fake news among Library and Information Science (LIS) undergraduates in Nigeria.

Design/methodology/approach

Survey research design of the descriptive type was used to generate data from a group of LIS undergraduates online. The population of the study consisted of 138 LIS undergraduate students who participated in the survey (thus, n = 138). The data retrieved was subjected to descriptive analysis.

Findings

The study revealed that the students had high level of ILC (x ¯ = 3.42), and there was low prevalence level of COVID-19 pandemic fake news (x ¯ = 2.35) among them. The major causes of COVID-19 fake news were too much information in circulation concerning COVID-19 (x ¯ = 3.44) and the resultant inability to discern or spot fake news from verified and authentic news (x ¯ = 3.28). The study also revealed that ILC had a significant effect in curtailing the spread of COVID-19 fake news with a grand mean of 3.28 against the criterion mean of 2.5. It is implied that LIS undergraduates are educationally position to acquire ILC which is crucial to their identification of fake news and helps to curtail its spread.

Research limitations/implications

The study is limited in its use of online group for data elicitation within a limited period of three weeks. Also, in its adoption of self-evaluation scale to measure ILC instead of standard information literacy test. Also, the high chances of social desirability bias in sections C and E serve as a limitation to the study.

Practical implications

The study reinforces the need to enhance structures that flags fake news on social media platforms and integrating IL into schools’ curriculum at all levels.

Originality/value

This study seeks to pioneer a new area of focus on the relevance of ILC to different global issues that concern the health and well-being.



中文翻译:

减少尼日利亚大学生关于COVID-19大流行的假新闻的信息素养能力

目的

2019年日冕病毒病(COVID-19)大流行的持续蔓延引起了公众健康的关注,大量的信息伴随着一系列假新闻。因此,本研究探讨了信息素养能力(ILC)在减少假新闻在尼日利亚图书馆和信息科学(LIS)大学生之间传播的影响。

设计/方法/方法

描述性类型的调查研究设计用于从一组LIS大学生在线生成数据。这项研究的人口包括138名参与调查的LIS本科生(因此,n = 138)。对检索到的数据进行描述性分析。

发现

研究表明,学生的ILC水平较高(x = 3.42),其中COVID-19大流行假新闻的流行水平较低(x = 2.35)。COVID-19虚假新闻的主要原因是有关COVID-19的流通信息过多(x = 3.44),导致无法从经过验证和真实的新闻中辨别或发现虚假新闻(x = 3.28)。该研究还显示,ILC在抑制COVID-19虚假新闻的传播方面具有显着效果,相对于2.5的标准平均值,其平均值为3.28。这暗示着LIS大学生在教育上处于获取ILC的地位,这对他们识别假新闻至关重要,并且有助于减少假新闻的传播。

研究局限/意义

该研究在三周的有限时间内限制了其使用在线小组进行数据检索的能力。此外,在采用自我评估量表来衡量ILC而不是标准信息素养测试时。此外,C和E部分中社会期望偏差的高可能性也限制了这项研究。

实际影响

这项研究强调需要加强结构,在社交媒体平台上标记假新闻,并将IL纳入各级学校的课程。

创意/价值

这项研究旨在开辟一个新的领域,重点关注国际劳工大会与涉及健康和福祉的不同全球问题的相关性。

更新日期:2020-11-09
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