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Military Review Online Exclusive ; Major Brent Pomeroy, USAF, a student in Defense Analysis, has the unusual honor of being an Air Force officer publishing in an Army publication. His well-researched article, "Time to Engage in Social Media," appears in the online Military Review: The Professional Journal of the U.S. Army, a publication of Army University Press.

Main AimThe Digital Health Survey was the first nationally representative survey in Wales aiming to understand the extent to which people use social media, disclose personal health related information through social media sites and different user patterns across population groups.
MethodsA nationally representative household sample (n=1,252) was identified by a probabilistic sampling approach. One individual, aged 16 years and older, per household was randomly invited to complete a face-to-face questionnaire between April and June 2018. The survey collected quantitative information on use of social media platforms, perception of sharing personal health information on social media platforms, health status and socio-demographic characteristics. We tested the relationships among use, user type, demographics and health status using Chi-squared test or Fisher's exact test correspondingly. Using estimated marginal means (and 95% confidence intervals), adjusted proportions of people who reported their use on social media platforms was calculated by adjusted mean, controlling for confounders.
Results76.9% of the Welsh population engaged with social media, including 64.7% who used one or more form of social media platform on a daily basis. The most frequently used (i.e. daily) social media platform was Facebook (50.6% of the Welsh population including 23.4% used several times a day). Within the population sampled, controlling for confounders, significant higher proportion of women (91%) users were found compared to men (86%). 99.6% of 16-29 years old used social media with significant lower proportions for older age groups (i.e. 75.6% for 60-69 and 59.8% for 70+). No significant differences were found between social media engagement and deprivation quintiles. 9.6% shared personal health information on social media with friends and family, while only 2.7% shared health information with people they did not know.
ConclusionPatterns in social media use are an important consideration for health promotion. The absence of a difference by deprivation groups suggests this approach may reach population more traditional routes have not. However, continued reduction in a digital divide and development of effective solutions for health via social media remains a priority.

Politiker und politische Parteien interessieren sich sehr dafür, das Internet und speziell soziale Netzwerke für ihre Kommunikation einzusetzen. Obwohl bislang unklar bleibt, wie viele zusätzliche Stimmen sich über Facebook, Twitter & Co gewinnen lassen, bieten diese Anwendungen ein großes Potential für Dialog, Image-Management und die gezielte Ansprache von potentiellen Wählern. Vor diesem Hintergrund scheint es zunächst überraschend, dass sich politische Akteure im Umgang mit Social Media so schwer tun. Empirische Studien belegen, dass Social Media, wenn überhaupt, zumeist als weiterer Kanal für einseitige Information eingesetzt werden. Dagegen findet kaum wirkliche Interaktion mit den Bürgern statt und ein großer Teil ihres Potentials bleibt ungenutzt.

Should the laws, interpretations and enforcement of one country's view of "internet safety" be able to trump platforms' content management decisions in the interests of free speech to allow the content to be seen in other parts of the world, enabling consumers to form their own views?
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The rise in populism in the Western world, most evident in the results of the 2016 Brexit referendum and the 2016 United States presidential election, has often been connected with the rise of social media. The unique character of social media has allowed extreme and polarised beliefs, two of the most identifiable features of populism, to emerge and spread in society through permitting the creation of echo chambers on a new larger scale, and providing new means for political campaigners and interested third parties to influence voter opinion. The abundance of information on social media might trigger voters to use simple heuristics to aggregate multiple sources of information. In this paper we report on several studies that focus on the implications of one such documented bias: "correlation neglect", the propensity to treat information sources as if they are (conditionally) independent. We discuss the relation between correlation neglect and polarisation in opinions and party platforms. We also discuss how targeted political campaigns in the presence of correlation neglect may bias voters from different groups in different directions. Specifically, competition in targeted social media campaigns increases polarisation among extreme voters but at the same time increases the randomness and unpredictability of moderates' voting behaviour. These findings are consistent with new data on the evolution of US voters' opinions in the last five decades. The data show a significant change in the trajectory of the opinions of moderates versus extreme voters starting from the mid 90s, which is consistent with the rise in the ability of campaigns more effectively to target and bombard voters with information through social media.

ZusammenfassungSocial Media beherrschen nicht nur die private Kommunikation, sondern haben zunehmend auch Einfluss auf die externe Wissenschaftskommunikation. In bisherigen Forschungsarbeiten wurden zwar bereits Social Media und deren Nutzung durch Wissenschaftler*innen in Zusammenhang mit wissenschaftsexterner Kommunikation untersucht, allerdings mangelt es an einer systematischen Darstellung der Einflussfaktoren. Diese Arbeit möchte an vorangegangene Studien anknüpfen und die gefundenen Einflussfaktoren replizieren und verifizieren. Als maßgebliche Einflussfaktoren bei der Social-Media-Nutzung von Wissenschaftler*innen haben wir basierend auf dem Forschungsstand Disziplinzugehörigkeit, den beruflichen Kontext, persönliche Eigenschaften und Prädispositionen definiert. Untersucht wurde die Häufigkeit der Nutzung von Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat sowie von Blogs und Podcasts. In einer aufwändig angelegten Online-Befragung haben wir zunächst Wissenschaftler*innen von 21 deutschen Volluniversitäten zur Teilnahme an der Studie eingeladen. Die Rekrutierung erfolgte über Dekanate und Institute und führte zu einer Stichprobe von über 1100 Wissenschaftler*innen. Lediglich Facebook und Twitter erwiesen sich für die Kommunikation im wissenschaftsexternen Kontext als relevant. Nach einer binär-logistischen Regressionsanalyse zeigte sich, dass die Ergebnisse bisheriger Studien nur vereinzelt bestätigt werden konnte. Faktoren wie Disziplinzugehörigkeit, Qualifikationsstufe und Alter haben eine nur mäßig gute Erklärkraft. Der Social-Media-Typus der Hochschule, das Geschlecht, Technikaffinität oder -abneigung sowie Persönlichkeitsfaktoren erwiesen sich als nicht signifikant. Die eher geringen R‑Quadrat-Werte in allen Modellen legen nahe, dass die unabhängigen Variablen nicht in der Lage sind, die abhängigen Variablen ausreichend gut zu erklären. Somit bedarf es weiterer Forschung, die insbesondere auch Faktoren des Einflusses auf das Public Engagement von Wissenschaftler*innen unabhängig vom Kommunikationsmedium einbezieht.

The rise in populism in the Western world, most evident in the results of the 2016 Brexit referendum and the 2016 United States presidential election, has often been connected with the rise of social media. The unique character of social media has allowed extreme and polarised beliefs, two of the most identifiable features of populism, to emerge and spread in society through permitting the creation of echo chambers on a new larger scale, and providing new means for political campaigners and interested third parties to influence voter opinion. The abundance of information on social media might trigger voters to use simple heuristics to aggregate multiple sources of information. In this paper we report on several studies that focus on the implications of one such documented bias: "correlation neglect", the propensity to treat information sources as if they are (conditionally) independent. We discuss the relation between correlation neglect and polarisation in opinions and party platforms. We also discuss how targeted political campaigns in the presence of correlation neglect may bias voters from different groups in different directions. Specifically, competition in targeted social media campaigns increases polarisation among extreme voters but at the same time increases the randomness and unpredictability of moderates' voting behaviour. These findings are consistent with new data on the evolution of US voters' opinions in the last five decades. The data show a significant change in the trajectory of the opinions of moderates versus extreme voters starting from the mid 90s, which is consistent with the rise in the ability of campaigns more effectively to target and bombard voters with information through social media. Publisher's note: This article was edited on 04/04/2022 to include Funding Information that was omitted at the time of publication.

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A meaningful portion of online misinformation sharing is likely attributable to Internet users failing to consider accuracy when deciding what to share. As a result, simply redirecting attention to the concept of accuracy can increase sharing discernment. Here we discuss the importance of accuracy and describe a limited-attention utility model that is based on a theory about inattention to accuracy on social media. We review research that shows how a simple nudge or prompt that shifts attention to accuracy increases the quality of news that people share (typically by decreasing the sharing of false content), and then discuss outstanding questions relating to accuracy nudges, including the need for more work relating to persistence and habituation as well as the dearth of cross-cultural research on these topics. We also make several recommendations for policy-makers and social media companies for how to implement accuracy nudges.

Der Politologe Theisen (zuletzt "Der Chip") widmet sich im vorliegenden Titel aus der neuen Reihe "Einfach erklärt" der Themenwelt der Medienkompetenz. In 15 Kapiteln werden Themen wie Recherche, Fake News, Verschwörungstheorien, Suchmaschinen, Big Data, Messenger, Influencer, Medienrecht, Cybermobbing und Spielsucht behandelt. Jedes Kapitel besteht dabei aus mehreren Fragestellungen, die auf jeweils einer Seite in kurzen, sachlichen Texten kindgerecht und nachvollziehbar beantwortet werden. So erfahren Kinder ab ca. 10 Jahren die Antwort auf Fragen wie "Was bewirken absichtliche Falschnachrichten?", "Wie erkennt man Verschwörungstheoretiker?", "Was macht Influencer-Kram so attraktiv?", "Was bewirkt Candy Crush in uns?" oder "Welche Folgen hat Cybermobbing?". Die Gestaltung von Cover und Inhalt wirkt verhältnismäi︣g schlicht, durch zahlreiche Fotos und Infografiken aber trotzdem ansprechend. Mit weiterführenden Links und Stichwortverzeichnis im Anhang. Sehr gelungener Ratgeber, der möglichst überall angeboten werden sollte. Ab 10