Drafts by Miranda E Pollock
Doctoral Studies paper proposing the construction of a scale to measure aesthetic emotions for ty... more Doctoral Studies paper proposing the construction of a scale to measure aesthetic emotions for typography.
Doctoral course work examining the impact of COVID-19 on higher education students. The paper rev... more Doctoral course work examining the impact of COVID-19 on higher education students. The paper reviews the roles of stress, anxiety, engagement, and isolation on student mental health and suggests commnunity interventions.
Papers by Miranda E Pollock
Information Technology Trends for a Global and Interdisciplinary Research Community
The COVID-19 outbreak has a considerable impact on all business domains worldwide, almost with ne... more The COVID-19 outbreak has a considerable impact on all business domains worldwide, almost with negative consequences. The digital transformation was already a requirement for all governments and institutions that this pandemic has accelerated to solve the confinement and the limitations to work and share the same spaces. Face-to-face higher education institutions moved towards an urgent and unplanned online teaching. After having closed one of the processes that has had the most significant impact on universities, the time has come to reflect and draw conclusions that will serve to face these institutions' future. A crisis always represents risks but also opportunities to change from a disruptive situation. This chapter reflects universities' futures from a strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats approach with the perspective of the experiences lived during the end of the 2019-2020 academic year by some face-to-face universities in Spain.
Thesis Chapters by Miranda E Pollock
Open Athens, 2022
In 2021, 72% of Americans used at least one social media site, often as a source of news and ente... more In 2021, 72% of Americans used at least one social media site, often as a source of news and entertainment. Yet misinformation spreads rapidly in social media echo chambers. The problem addressed by this study is that an endemic of misinformation, extremist views, and conspiracy theories flourish in social media and are often amplified using memes for visual persuasion. The specific research problem prompting the need for this study is the lack of understanding of the emotional, cognitive, and biased responses that impact judgments of perceived truth when observing ideological-laden misinformation content in a meme. The purpose of this quantitative correlational-predictive study was to examine the extent to which the individual variables (ideological bias, affective response, and familiarity with a persuasive meme containing politically ideological misinformation content) predict judgments of truth. The theoretical lens included processing fluency. The final sample size consisted of 110 adult social media users
residing in the United States who were recruited through social media platforms. Participants answered self-report measures for ideological beliefs, viewed 12 memes containing misinformation content (conservative, liberal, or neutral), and rated affective responses (like to dislike), truth judgments (not true to entirely true), and a dichotomous choice of familiar or
unfamiliar per meme. Regression analysis was used to derive conclusions from the data. The results revealed statistically significant predictive relationships between ideology and truth judgments and between affective responses and truth judgments for conservative and liberal misinformation memes. Interestingly, a correlation was found between ideology and affect for conservative content, but not liberal content. The results of this study support the theory that ideology impacts illusory truth through processing fluency. Further research should investigate
the role of ideology as a moderating influence between the relationships of affect with truth
judgments and familiarity with truth judgments.
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residing in the United States who were recruited through social media platforms. Participants answered self-report measures for ideological beliefs, viewed 12 memes containing misinformation content (conservative, liberal, or neutral), and rated affective responses (like to dislike), truth judgments (not true to entirely true), and a dichotomous choice of familiar or
unfamiliar per meme. Regression analysis was used to derive conclusions from the data. The results revealed statistically significant predictive relationships between ideology and truth judgments and between affective responses and truth judgments for conservative and liberal misinformation memes. Interestingly, a correlation was found between ideology and affect for conservative content, but not liberal content. The results of this study support the theory that ideology impacts illusory truth through processing fluency. Further research should investigate
the role of ideology as a moderating influence between the relationships of affect with truth
judgments and familiarity with truth judgments.
residing in the United States who were recruited through social media platforms. Participants answered self-report measures for ideological beliefs, viewed 12 memes containing misinformation content (conservative, liberal, or neutral), and rated affective responses (like to dislike), truth judgments (not true to entirely true), and a dichotomous choice of familiar or
unfamiliar per meme. Regression analysis was used to derive conclusions from the data. The results revealed statistically significant predictive relationships between ideology and truth judgments and between affective responses and truth judgments for conservative and liberal misinformation memes. Interestingly, a correlation was found between ideology and affect for conservative content, but not liberal content. The results of this study support the theory that ideology impacts illusory truth through processing fluency. Further research should investigate
the role of ideology as a moderating influence between the relationships of affect with truth
judgments and familiarity with truth judgments.