مورد إلكتروني
What Is (Fake) News? Analyzing News Values (and More) in Fake Stories
| العنوان: | What Is (Fake) News? Analyzing News Values (and More) in Fake Stories |
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| المصدر: | Media and Communication; Vol 9, No 1 (2021): Dark Participation in Online Communication: The World of the Wicked Web; 110-119; 2183-2439 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cogitatio 2021-02-03 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Singapore Ministry of Education Tandoc Jr., Edson C. Thomas, Ryan J. Bishop, Lauren |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | ‘Fake news’ has been a topic of controversy during and following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Much of the scholarship on it to date has focused on the ‘fakeness’ of fake news, illuminating the kinds of deception involved and the motivations of those who deceive. This study looks at the ‘newsness’ of fake news by examining the extent to which it imitates the characteristics and conventions of traditional journalism. Through a content analysis of 886 fake news articles, we find that in terms of news values, topic, and formats, articles published by fake news sites look very much like traditional—and real—news. Most of their articles included the news values of timeliness, negativity, and prominence; were about government and politics; and were written in an inverted pyramid format. However, one point of departure is in terms of objectivity, operationalized as the absence of the author’s personal opinion. The analysis found that the majority of articles analyzed included the opinion of their author or authors. |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | content analysis; disinformation; fake news; inverted pyramid; news values; objectivity; traditional news, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
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| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content Copyright (c) 2021 Edson C. Tandoc Jr., Ryan J. Thomas, Lauren Bishop http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| ملاحظة: | application/pdf English |
| أرقام أخرى: | PTCOG oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3331 https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3331 10.17645/mac.v9i1.3331 1334359578 |
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| رقم الأكسشن: | edsoai.on1334359578 |
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