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Spread of Political Media and Beliefs About Disinformation

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Project Title: On the Spread of Political Social Media and Beliefs About Disinformation
Principal Investigator: Jillian Avis, Undergraduate Student at Ferris State University
Email: avisj1@ferris.edu
Phone: 231-500-7076

You are invited to participate in a voluntary survey about the spread of political media across social networking sites, disinformation, and use of digital-information (media) literacy tools. You are being asked to participate because you are at least 18 years old and may find political posts on social media sites. The researcher is interested in the prevalence of media literacy tools in disseminating political information found on social networks.

Information will be collected by closed-ended questions on this survey with additional questions about demographic and political affiliation. We estimate that it will take approximately 30 minutes to answer the survey questions and your participation will be complete if your answers to the first section do not meet the criteria for the rest of the survey, when you finish the survey questions, or choose to leave the survey before the end. Information collected for this study will likely not provide you with any direct or indirect benefits but will provide the undergrad researcher with valuable information for a class grade and further understanding of political communication topics. Risks or discomforts from this research include possible discomfort in answering demographic questions, political affiliation questions, or questions about social media usage. Should you experience discomfort in providing this information, you may choose to continue the survey without providing this information or choose to leave the survey. Incompletion of this survey will not impact your safety, well-being, or academic standing with Ferris State University.

The survey data will be collected anonymously and your personal information will not be traced back to you and this study will not be disseminated by scientific or mainstream journals, meaning your answers in this survey will only be viewed by the researcher and the researcher's professor (the study team). Information will be collected by the closed-ended questions in this survey. Information you provide in this study will be maintained and secured by the study team for the rest of the semester and no more than one year. As a reminder, you may refuse to answer any question you do not wish to answer and you may exit the survey at any time. Participation or non-participation in this study will not impact your academic standing with Ferris State University in any way, nor will you receive retaliation from Ferris State University or the study team should you choose not to participate or choose to exit the survey early.

This project does not have IRB (Institutional Research Board) approval and thus cannot be entered into a reader domain including academic journals, mainstream journals, magazines, newspapers, websites, etc. The research team takes participant privacy, safety, and well-being seriously and will follow IRB standards even without IRB approval. The researcher asks you to answer honestly and to the best of your ability as your answers will not be traced back to you.

If you have questions about this study or concerns about your rights as a participant, please contact the Principal Investigator, Jillian Avis, listed above. If you agree to take this survey, please mark the checkbox below. If you do not wish to participate, you may exit your browser now with no penalty to you.
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