Qualitative review and presentation of behavior pattern of users in social networks in dealing with fake news

Document Type : researcher

Authors
pari karimi 1
Shahnaz Hashemi 2
ali jafari 3
Mohammad Soltanifar 4
1 PhD Student in Communication Sciences, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.
2 Associate Professor, Institute for Education Studies, Tehran, Iran.
3 Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran
4 Professor of the Department of Social Communication Sciences. Faculty of Humanities. Islamic Azad university. Research Science Unit of Tehran. Iran
10.22034/scm.2025.461299.1771
Abstract
Social media platforms have increasingly become news sources. Due to the fact that people expose stories and narratives and various topics about people and media, including fake news, they are different from traditional media. In this research, in order to identify the components and design the behavioral model of users in social networks in dealing with fake news, the foundation's data theorizing was used, which after interviewing the experts, the six dimensions of the model including causal conditions, background conditions-inclusion conditions infrastructural and superstructure), intervening conditions, main phenomenon, strategies and consequences along with propositions corresponding to them were formulated.
Also, to check the validity of the research results and its reliability, the reliability test between the coders was used for the conducted interviews, and the value obtained is equal to 82%, and it states that the reliability of the codings is confirmed, and it can be claimed that the validity of the interview analysis The current one is suitable.
Keywords
"news
fake news
social networks"
Subjects
 
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Society Culture Media
Volume 14, Issue 57
Winter 2026
Pages 57-104

  • Receive Date 13 August 2024
  • Revise Date 05 September 2025
  • Accept Date 05 September 2025