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An Overview of the Fake News Phenomenon: From Untruth-Driven to Post-Truth-Driven Approaches
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Abstract "Fake news" was chosen in 2017 as the word of the year by the Collins Dictionary and the American Dialect Society, due to its extraordinary popularity. However, its relevance has been called into question due to its controversy and ambiguity. We have compiled herein 30 definitions from selected dict... mehr
"Fake news" was chosen in 2017 as the word of the year by the Collins Dictionary and the American Dialect Society, due to its extraordinary popularity. However, its relevance has been called into question due to its controversy and ambiguity. We have compiled herein 30 definitions from selected dictionaries, academic papers, news agencies, influential media observatories, and independent, certified fact-checkers over the last six years and have carried out a manual relational content analysis on them. We also collected data from four bibliometric studies from academic literature and five surveys on how the general public perceived fake news. In keeping with this three-level systematic review (lexicography, bibliometrics, and public perception) we detected some trends, including a growing drift towards a post-truth-driven conceptualization of fake news. Results also show that the "viral" and "memetic" quality of a rumor prevail over the demonstrable credibility of a source and even the factuality of a reported event; the element of surprise or outrage in the heat of the moment is more powerful than the ironic detachment elicited by news satire and parody; and sharing motivations are definitely less concerned with perceived accuracy than with partisan support, community sentiment, emotional contagion, and a taste for the sensational or bizarre.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Desinformation; Falschmeldung; Wahrnehmung; Wörterbuch; Inhaltsanalyse
Klassifikation
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
Druckmedien
Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Freie Schlagwörter
bibliometrics; fake news; fakeness; lexicography; news-ness; partisanship; post-truth; public perception; shareworthiness
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 15-29
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 11 (2023) 2
Heftthema
Fakespotting: (Dis)Information Literacy as Key Tool to Defend Democracy
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)