Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism [Working Title]最新文献

COVID-19 Infodemic and Indian Media: An Evaluative Study COVID-19信息流行与印度媒体:一项评估研究

Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism [Working Title] Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.94230

Kinshuk Pathak

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A Disinformation-Misinformation Ecology: The Case of Trump 虚假信息-错误信息生态:特朗普的案例

Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism [Working Title] Pub Date : 2020-12-07 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.95000

T. Froehlich

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Framing Xenophobia on Social Media: An Analysis of Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians Living in South Africa 在社交媒体上构建仇外心理:对生活在南非的尼日利亚人的仇外袭击的分析

Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism [Working Title] Pub Date : 2020-11-21 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.94117

Emeka Umejei

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Alternative News and Misinterpretations: Fake News and Its Spread in Nigeria 另类新闻和误解:假新闻及其在尼日利亚的传播

Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism [Working Title] Pub Date : 2020-11-12 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.94571

D. Otulugbu

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Disinformation as a Society-Wide Threat: Journalism and ‘Fakecracy’ in Venezuela 作为全社会威胁的虚假信息:委内瑞拉的新闻业和“假政治”

Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism [Working Title] Pub Date : 2020-11-10 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.93995

Andrés Cañizález, León Hernández, Luisa Torrealba

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The Scramble for Cyberspace: Internet-Based Reporting of Genocide in the Southern Cameroon-Ambazonia Crisis 网络空间争夺战:南喀麦隆-阿姆巴佐尼亚危机中基于互联网的种族灭绝报道

Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism [Working Title] Pub Date : 2020-10-29 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.94458

Nanche Billa Robert

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Fake News as Aberration in Journalism Practice: Examining Truth and Facts as Basis of Fourth Estate of the Realm 假新闻是新闻实践中的偏差:审视作为第四等级王国基础的真相与事实

Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism [Working Title] Pub Date : 2020-10-21 DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.94195

S. Osho

{"title":"Fake News as Aberration in Journalism Practice: Examining Truth and Facts as Basis of Fourth Estate of the Realm","authors":"S. Osho","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.94195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94195","url":null,"abstract":"The deliberate publication of fake news by any media organisation or online network is an aberration in journalism practice. And such sophist intentions and dissemination of falsehood to the people through the virtual media, social media and old media is a depravity against humanity to spread mischief, acrimony, crises, disease, corruption, and squalor. It is total negation of journalism values and news values. Thus, this chapter seeks to examine the concept of newsworthiness in the wake of resurrection of the ghost of fake news in this digital age, which was the practice in the age of ignorance when unlettered men abound as journalists. It investigates the ideological constructs of news because it is a violation of journalism practice for any organisation to base its ideology on the publication of fake news. This study highlights news production process in tandem with the socio-cultural interests, political philosophy, and economic interests of the sponsors, financiers, and owners of the media. The chapter critically examines factors of news or factors of newsworthiness in relation to the concept of fake news. If the twelve factors of news are frequency, threshold, unambiguity, meaningfulness, consonance, unexpectedness, continuity, composition, reference to elite nations, reference to elite people, reference to elite persons, and reference to something negative, should there be anything fake called News? In narrative and argumentative form, the study concludes that anything fake or any information that is based on falsehood cannot be regarded as News. If it is news, it must be based on Truth and Facts. If it is news, it must be new. If it is news, it must be based on actualities. If it is news, it must be based on evidences. If it is news, it must be fair. If it is news, it must be based on realities. If it is news, it must not be based on vendetta. If it is news, it must not be hoax. If it is news, it must not be fallacy. If it is news, it must not be innuendoes.","PeriodicalId":184709,"journal":{"name":"Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism [Working Title]","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121047275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Potentials of Radio in Combating Misinformation about COVID-19 in Nigeria 无线电广播在尼日利亚打击关于COVID-19的错误信息方面的潜力

Fake News Is Bad News - Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism [Working Title] Pub Date : 2020-09-24 DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.93949

P. Ephraim

引用次数: 4