Fake news is bad news: hoaxes, half-truths and the nature of today's journalism
Intech Open
(2021), 260 pp.
ISBN 978-1-83962-422-3 (online); 978-1-83962-421-6 (print); 978-1-83962-423-0 (pdf)
"The publication is focused on the ways fake news, disinformation, misinformation and hateful statements are spread across society, predominantly within the online environment. Its main ambition is to offer an interdisciplinary body of scholarly knowledge on fake news, disinformation and propaganda in relation to today's journalism, social development, political situation and cultural affairs happening all around the world." (Publisher)
Contents
1 Introductory Chapter: Journalism Facing Both Pandemic and ‘Infodemic’ / Ján Višnovský and Jana Radošinská
2 A Disinformation-Misinformation Ecology: The Case of Trump / Thomas J. Froehlich
3 Debunking as a Method of Uncovering Disinformation and Fake News / Zuzana Kvetanová, Anna Kacincová Predmerská and Magdaléna Švecová
4 Lightweight and Simplified Truth as a Kind of Distortion of Social-Everyday Reality / Shestakova Eleonora
5 Democracy, Freedom and Truth at a Time of Digital Disruption: An Equation with Three Unknowns? / Elena Danescu
6 Fake News as Aberration in Journalism Practice: Examining Truth and Facts as Basis of Fourth Estate of the Realm / Sulaiman A. Osho
7 Alternative News and Misinterpretations: Fake News and Its Spread in Nigeria / Dumebi Otulugbu
8 The Replication and Spread of Functional Food Messages: The Influence of Personalities on Internet Meme Behavior / Jon-Chao Hong, Ming-Yueh Hwang and Kai-Hsin Tai
9 The Potentials of Radio in Combating Misinformation about COVID-19 in Nigeria / Philip Effiom Ephraim
10 Disinformation as a Society-Wide Threat: Journalism and ‘Fakecracy’ in Venezuela / Andrés Cañizález, León Hernández and Luisa Torrealba
11 The Scramble for Cyberspace: Internet-Based Reporting of Genocide in the Southern Cameroon-Ambazonia Crisis / Nanche Billa Robert
12 Framing Xenophobia on Social Media: An Analysis of Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians Living in South Africa / Emeka Umejei
13 COVID-19 Infodemic and Indian Media: An Evaluative Study / Kinshuk Pathak
2 A Disinformation-Misinformation Ecology: The Case of Trump / Thomas J. Froehlich
3 Debunking as a Method of Uncovering Disinformation and Fake News / Zuzana Kvetanová, Anna Kacincová Predmerská and Magdaléna Švecová
4 Lightweight and Simplified Truth as a Kind of Distortion of Social-Everyday Reality / Shestakova Eleonora
5 Democracy, Freedom and Truth at a Time of Digital Disruption: An Equation with Three Unknowns? / Elena Danescu
6 Fake News as Aberration in Journalism Practice: Examining Truth and Facts as Basis of Fourth Estate of the Realm / Sulaiman A. Osho
7 Alternative News and Misinterpretations: Fake News and Its Spread in Nigeria / Dumebi Otulugbu
8 The Replication and Spread of Functional Food Messages: The Influence of Personalities on Internet Meme Behavior / Jon-Chao Hong, Ming-Yueh Hwang and Kai-Hsin Tai
9 The Potentials of Radio in Combating Misinformation about COVID-19 in Nigeria / Philip Effiom Ephraim
10 Disinformation as a Society-Wide Threat: Journalism and ‘Fakecracy’ in Venezuela / Andrés Cañizález, León Hernández and Luisa Torrealba
11 The Scramble for Cyberspace: Internet-Based Reporting of Genocide in the Southern Cameroon-Ambazonia Crisis / Nanche Billa Robert
12 Framing Xenophobia on Social Media: An Analysis of Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians Living in South Africa / Emeka Umejei
13 COVID-19 Infodemic and Indian Media: An Evaluative Study / Kinshuk Pathak
