Persuasion strategies of misinformation-containing posts in the social media

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Highlights:

• Pathos strategies are found to be the most common acts of persuasion in misinformation-containing posts.

• Gratitude, reciprocity, and pathos-negative are frequently used together in misinformation-containing posts.

• The usage of persuasion strategies are correlated with topic, expected actions, and digital elements of a misinformation-containing post.

• Misinformation-containing posts using pathos-other, storytelling and repetition strategy show positive effects on invoking user responses.

摘要

•Pathos strategies are found to be the most common acts of persuasion in misinformation-containing posts.•Gratitude, reciprocity, and pathos-negative are frequently used together in misinformation-containing posts.•The usage of persuasion strategies are correlated with topic, expected actions, and digital elements of a misinformation-containing post.•Misinformation-containing posts using pathos-other, storytelling and repetition strategy show positive effects on invoking user responses.

论文关键词:Misinformation,Persuasion strategy,Aristotle's rhetorical theory,Social media,Online social network

论文评审过程:Received 3 January 2021, Revised 29 April 2021, Accepted 15 June 2021, Available online 8 July 2021, Version of Record 8 July 2021.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102665