Media in the modern era : navigating misinformation and journalism's evolution /

Yang, Mei

Media in the modern era : navigating misinformation and journalism's evolution / Mei Yang. - Tallahassee, Fl. : Knowledge Science Press, 2024. - 254 pages: 23 cm

Includes bibliographic references

Debunking as a Method of Uncovering Disinformation and Fake News -- The Potentials of Radio in Combating Misinformation about COVID-19 in Nigeria -- Lightweight and Simplified Truth as a Kind of Distortion of Social-Everyday Reality -- Disinformation as a Society-Wide Threat: Journalism and `Fakecracy` in Venezuela -- The Replication and Spread of Functional Food Messages: The Influence of Personalities on Internet Meme Behavior -- COVID-19 Infodemic and Indian Media: An Evaluative Study -- Fake News as Abberation in Journalism Practice: Examining Truth and Facts as Basis of Fourth Estate of the Realm --The Scramble for Cyberspace: Internet-Based Reporting of Genocide in the Southern Cameroon-Ambazonian Crisis -- Altrernative News and Misinterpretations: Fake News and Its Spread in Nigeria -- Framing Xenophobia on Social: An Analysis of Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians Living in South Africa -- A Disinformation-Misinformation Ecology: The Case of Trump -- Democarcy, Freedom and Truth at a Time of Digital Disruption: An Equation with Three Unknowns? -- Environmental Journalism: Education on the Global South


in English

9781962439589


Journalism.
Media literacy
Misinformation.
Fake news.
Journalistic ethics.
Disinformation.
Journalism technological innovation

070.444 Y161 2024