Juliana Fernandes

A new study has found that Google Fact Check could not provide sufficient fact-checking information for most false claims. The findings by Juliana Fernandes, University of Florida (UF) College of Journalism and Communications Advertising assistant professor, UF Electrical and Computer Engineering doctoral student Qiangeng Yang, UF Florida Institute for Cybersecurity…

By Amanda Friedman, Journalism senior When Sofia Portugal looked at UF’s website for the first time as a high school student in Bahia, Brazil, she couldn’t imagine attending college anywhere else. “It just felt right,” Portugal said. The now 23-year-old University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) graduate…

Juliana Fernandes, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising assistant professor, is the author of an essay published in the December 2023 AEJMC Advertising Division newsletter focusing on her selection as the 2023 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Advertising Distinguished Teaching Award. Fernandes writes…

The problem of misinformation or disinformation being disseminated on social media has been well established and documented. But a new study suggests that users actually find factual posts more engaging than posts with misinformation. While there is a slight difference between misinformation and disinformation content, the authors show that factual…

A new study has found that factual tweets, regardless of whether they were COVID-related, were more engaging than misinformation tweets. The findings by Juliana Fernandes, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising assistant professor, and a team of 10 scholars were featured in “People Still Care About the…

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Assistant Professor Juliana Fernandes was quoted in “Play it Again, Joe. Biden Bets That Repeating Himself is Smart Politics” posted on apnews.com on Aug. 4. The article focuses on President Biden’s multi-decade political career strategy of repeating the same stories to…

As we are weathering the hottest summer in human history, there’s little question that climate change is upon us. And effective science communication is more important than ever, particularly for members of Gen Z, who will soon become the caretakers of the planet and the problem-solvers in a world where…

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Assistant Professor Juliana Fernandes is the recipient of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Advertising Division 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award. The Distinguished Teaching Award rewards excellence in undergraduate teaching over a sustained period of time. The selection…

University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising Assistant Professor Julia Fernandes has been invited to join the Social Science Advisory Council of More Like Us, a non-governmental organization (NGO) aiming to address America’s political perception gap. According to More Like Us, Americans overestimate differences between political parties. The…

Disinformation is not a new phenomenon. But our 21st century technology has made it possible to easily spread disinformation far and wide. On social media, any individual or organization can purchase ads or promote sponsored content and distribute it widely to a desired audience. Social media posts and online content…

An examination of Facebook ads created by Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) disinformation campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. presidential election unearthed the relationship between ad engagement and the features relating to the ads’ metadata, psychological meaning, and sentiment. The findings by Juliana Fernandes, University of Florida College of Journalism and…

Juliana Fernandes, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising assistant professor, was a member of the “Q &A Research Panel with UF Researchers” discussion during the Florida Undergraduate Research Leadership Summit (FURLS) 2023 on Jan. 28 in the UF Reitz Student Union. Fernandes, Walter O’Dell, Pouya Amelia and…