The awareness of fake news phenomenon through information literacy competency in social networking sites (SNS) / Arlyssa Lim, Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah & Safawi Abdul Rahman

This study examines the relationship between Information Literacy (IL) competency and fake news phenomenon in Social Networking Sites (SNS). Data for this study has been collected from the Coursework Master level students of Faculty of Information Management (FIM) in UITM Campus Puncak Perdana by us...

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Main Authors: Lim, Arlyssa, Wan Dollah, Wan Ab Kadir, Abdul Rahman, Safawi
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description This study examines the relationship between Information Literacy (IL) competency and fake news phenomenon in Social Networking Sites (SNS). Data for this study has been collected from the Coursework Master level students of Faculty of Information Management (FIM) in UITM Campus Puncak Perdana by using a simple random sampling method with a total sample data of 97 respondents. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 25 and SmartPLS 3.0. The results indicated that the relationship between IL competency and fake news phenomenon in SNS is significant. On the other hand, the findings found that the level of IL competency of Coursework Master level students of FIM in UITM Campus Puncak Perdana is high. Although facing several limitations, this research makes quite a several contributions and this study has provided evidence on the relationship between IL competency and fake news phenomenon in SNS, which suggests that the IL approach will be a great alternative in addressing the fake news phenomenon.
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spelling my.uitm.ir-545772021-12-10T06:30:54Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54577/ The awareness of fake news phenomenon through information literacy competency in social networking sites (SNS) / Arlyssa Lim, Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah & Safawi Abdul Rahman aclim Lim, Arlyssa Wan Dollah, Wan Ab Kadir Abdul Rahman, Safawi Library education. Training Electronic information resource literacy This study examines the relationship between Information Literacy (IL) competency and fake news phenomenon in Social Networking Sites (SNS). Data for this study has been collected from the Coursework Master level students of Faculty of Information Management (FIM) in UITM Campus Puncak Perdana by using a simple random sampling method with a total sample data of 97 respondents. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 25 and SmartPLS 3.0. The results indicated that the relationship between IL competency and fake news phenomenon in SNS is significant. On the other hand, the findings found that the level of IL competency of Coursework Master level students of FIM in UITM Campus Puncak Perdana is high. Although facing several limitations, this research makes quite a several contributions and this study has provided evidence on the relationship between IL competency and fake news phenomenon in SNS, which suggests that the IL approach will be a great alternative in addressing the fake news phenomenon. Universiti Teknologi MARA 2021 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/54577/1/54577.pdf The awareness of fake news phenomenon through information literacy competency in social networking sites (SNS) / Arlyssa Lim, Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah & Safawi Abdul Rahman. (2021) Journal of Academic Library Management (AcLiM) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Academic_Library_Management_=28AcLiM=29/>, 1 (2): 11. pp. 75-85. ISSN (eISSN) 2785-9185 https://aclim.uitm.edu.my
spellingShingle Library education. Training
Electronic information resource literacy
Lim, Arlyssa
Wan Dollah, Wan Ab Kadir
Abdul Rahman, Safawi
The awareness of fake news phenomenon through information literacy competency in social networking sites (SNS) / Arlyssa Lim, Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah & Safawi Abdul Rahman
title The awareness of fake news phenomenon through information literacy competency in social networking sites (SNS) / Arlyssa Lim, Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah & Safawi Abdul Rahman
title_full The awareness of fake news phenomenon through information literacy competency in social networking sites (SNS) / Arlyssa Lim, Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah & Safawi Abdul Rahman
title_fullStr The awareness of fake news phenomenon through information literacy competency in social networking sites (SNS) / Arlyssa Lim, Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah & Safawi Abdul Rahman
title_full_unstemmed The awareness of fake news phenomenon through information literacy competency in social networking sites (SNS) / Arlyssa Lim, Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah & Safawi Abdul Rahman
title_short The awareness of fake news phenomenon through information literacy competency in social networking sites (SNS) / Arlyssa Lim, Wan Ab Kadir Wan Dollah & Safawi Abdul Rahman
title_sort awareness of fake news phenomenon through information literacy competency in social networking sites (sns) / arlyssa lim, wan ab kadir wan dollah & safawi abdul rahman
topic Library education. Training
Electronic information resource literacy
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