Abstract

Despite renewed interest in news literacy (NL) as a way to combat mis- and dis-information, existing scholarship is plagued by insufficient theory building and inadequate conceptualization of both “NL” and its application. We address this concern by offering a concise definition of NL and suggest five key knowledge and skill domains that comprise this literacy. We distinguish NL from its application to behaviors that communication scholars have been interested in, including news exposure, verification, and identifying misinformation. We propose an adapted Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to include NL in addition to the existing components (attitudes towards the behavior, social norms, perceived behavioral control) when modeling NL Behaviors. We discuss how this model can unite scholars across subfields and propose a research agenda for moving scholarship forward.

中文翻译：

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理论化新闻素养行为

摘要

尽管人们对新闻素养（NL）作为一种解决错误信息和虚假信息的方式重新产生了兴趣，但现有的学术研究受到理论构建不足和对“ NL”及其应用的概念化不足的困扰。我们通过提供NL的简明定义来解决此问题，并提出构成该素养的五个关键知识和技能领域。我们将NL与其应用于传播学者感兴趣的行为（包括新闻曝光，验证和识别错误信息）区分开来。我们提出了一种适用的计划行为理论（TPB），在对NL行为进行建模时，除了现有组件（对行为的态度，社会规范，感知的行为控制）之外，还包括NL。