Misinformation and desinformation is a big problem in the social media landscape. It has been recently discovered that a Swedish political party has been spreading hate and desinformation through anonymous social media accounts to gain votes and to act against minorities in Sweden. To combat the issue with desinformation the media users need to have the ability to locate false facts and underlying motives from the source.This study's aims to discover how Swedish media students describe and reason about source criticism on TikTok with a qualitative interview study. The study has three research questions that is how Swedish media students describe the characteristics of TikTok, how they describe their strategies for being source critical on TikTok and how they reason about the connection with their education and their ability to be source critical on social media. The theoretical framework is media literacy and social media literacy that helps to analyze the interviews and to make relevant conclusions of the material. The study discovers that the media students are aware of TikTok´s characteristics and how to deal with them and they show a great ability to be media literate on social media. But they also witness a difficulty to be critical to content on TikTok because of the great exposure of information and the eternal scrolling on for you page.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-129901 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Gardelius, Elin, Olsson, Alicia |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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