Abstract
Health misinformation on social media is an emerging public concern as the COVID-19 infodemic tragically evidences. Key challenges that empower health misinformation’s spread include rapidly advancing social technologies and high social media usage penetration. However, research on health misinformation on social media lacks cohesion and has received limited attention from information systems (IS) researchers. Given this issue’s importance and relevance to the IS discipline, we summarize the current state of research on this emerging topic and identify research gaps together with meaningful research questions. Following a two-step literature search, we identify and analyze 101 papers. Drawing on the Shannon-Weaver communication model, we propose an integrative stage-based framework of health misinformation on social media. Based on literature analysis, we identify research opportunities and prescribe directions for future research on health misinformation on social media. © 2022 by the Association for Information Systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 116-149 |
| Journal | Association for Information Systems Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jun 2022 |
Research Keywords
- Health Misinformation
- Fake News
- Social Media
- Literature Review
- Shannon-Weaver Model of Communication
- Stage-based Framework
- Research Directions.
Publisher's Copyright Statement
- COPYRIGHT TERMS OF DEPOSITED FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION FILE: COPYRIGHT TERMS OF DEPOSITED FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION FILE: Limited copyright by the Association for Information Systems. Use for commercial purposes is not allowed. Li, Y., Marga, J. J., Cheung, C. M., Shen, X., & Lee, M. (2022). Health Misinformation on Social Media: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Directions. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 14(2), 116-149. https://doi.org/10.17705/1thci.00164.