Senior lecturer George Pearson's PhD dissertation was published in New Media & Society.

His study, entitled "Sources on social media: Information context collapse and volume of content as predictors of source blindness," found that people who used social media for both entertainment and news are more likely to confuse fact with fiction.

"Right now, the structure of information platforms – especially social media – may be reducing positive media literacy behaviors," said Pearson.

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