{"id":18174,"date":"2019-10-25T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/?p=18174"},"modified":"2019-11-02T13:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T13:26:38","slug":"they-say-checking-is-important-but-they-rarely-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2019\/10\/25\/18174\/","title":{"rendered":"They Say Checking Is Important, But They Rarely Check"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Media Consumption in Armenia<\/span><\/a> survey, conducted by CRRC and MIC, attempted to find out through questionnaires how people verify the reliability of a media product. And how do they justify their own behavior in the media field?<\/span><\/p>\n

The elements of media literacy included in the study allow people to conclude that fact-checking and media information is important, but by and large, respondents rarely take the few extra steps to check what they consume.<\/span><\/p>\n

1200 people living throughout Armenia were asked the question, “In what cases is the information considered suspicious\/unreliable?” In addition, respondents were able to give up to three answers:<\/span><\/p>\n

22% said it was suspicious if the information was very unlikely, 19% if the title and content were inconsistent, 17% if they heard it from an unknown person or site, 15% if the source is not listed, 10% if it is shared by untrustworthy people or websites.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first condition of trusting the platform or person is to be familiar. You trust or not depending on if you know them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The question “How do you check suspicious information” was an open-ended question. That is to say, people were not offered answers, they themselves formulated verification mechanisms.<\/span><\/p>\n

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32% of those surveyed search the Internet to check out suspicious information. 26% look for the same information on websites they trust. 23% asked acquaintances and friends, and 16% asked for information from the source. 3% of the respondents write a post on social networks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Respondents in their answers, although indicating the need for at least double-checking, described their own behavior on the network and acknowledged that they did not always go through the chain of links.<\/span><\/p>\n

From this graph it can be seen that only 6% of readers click on the source link provided in the article, 25% never do.<\/span><\/p>\n

And 34% say they never check information by going to other pages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The responses, which characterize trust in the various media, also show that people value what they are familiar with.<\/span><\/p>\n

The question “How reliable is the information provided by the following sources” with clear versions of the answers indicates that the answers “very reliable” and “generally not reliable” are few.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people are hesitant and give average answers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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While studying this chart, it becomes clear that Russian media continues to be a serious information resource in Armenia. And many republican radio broadcasters are perceived as a reliable source.<\/span><\/p>\n

Respondents, when describing a media literate person, first mentioned the technical capability of using the internet (18.7%).<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, the ability to analyze the material’s perception (14.2%), the ability to understand the purpose of the material (11.5%).<\/span><\/p>\n

People also consider media literacy a requirement to open social network accounts\/pages and also make money through the media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nune Hakhverdyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Media Consumption in Armenia survey, conducted by CRRC and MIC, attempted to find out through questionnaires how people verify the reliability of a media product. And how do they justify their own behavior in the media field? The elements of media literacy included in the study allow people to conclude that fact-checking and media Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","author_posts-nune-hakhverdyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18175,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174\/revisions\/18175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}