scholarly journals FAKES IDENTIFICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF SHAPING A CRITICAL THINKING OF FUTURE EDUCATORS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-146
Author(s):  
OKSANA KUSHNIR ◽  
TETIANA RESHETUKHA
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
On Line ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
Line Space ◽  
Activity Strategy

Today medias have substantial influence on development of young personality. All without an exception mass media, and especially on-line-space, offering the recipients unbelievable amount of information content, come forward as effective factors of formation of one’s own opinion, development of conception of collective activity, strategy of public policy on local and global scales. Therefore, formation of critical immunity for teachers and students is a necessity. In the context of modern mass-informative manipulations fake news – untruthful reports which are purposefully widespread for the sake of misleading an audience – had become very popular. The aim of this publication is to pay attention to problem of fake reports in mediaspace, to define the criteria of fake news authentication, the most obvious threats of distribution of untruthful news and ways of counteraction of misinformation for the sake of formation of critical immunity of future teachers in the conditions of global information conflicts. The authors of the article considered the concept of fake news, outlined the reasons of active fake news pandemic, paid attention to cases of purposeful distribution of untruthful media reports for the sake of misleading an audience. The complexity of authentication of fake information, that is distributed through traditional mass-media and internet-medias, especially social networks has been marked. There have been presented different fake news classification approaches according to methods of transmission, forms, maintenance, markers. Importance of awareness of audience has been highlighted along with the possibilities of verification of the perceived and intended for distribution information, as well as usage of the results of activity of faktchecking projects. The characteristic markers of purposeful untruthful information messages have been defined: shocking character of news, powerful emotionality of report; absence of reference to the source; erroneous argumentation; manipulative title; versions or theory of conspiracy; fully invented news or absolute fake news. The examples of fake information and possibilities of its recognition have been proved. The authors state the most obvious threats of distribution of unverified news, role of teachers in the process of formation of the critical thinking for the bread-winners of education as effective weapon of fight against manipulations, the necessity of medialiteracy, conscious consumption and distribution of information for all participants of educational environment in the context of new calls of contemporaneity, that is predefined by establishment and development of informative society.

scholarly journals The Role of Syntactic Expressive Means in the English Language Economic Mass Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Olga Dzhagatspanyan ◽  
Svetlana Orlova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Economic Report ◽  
Rhetorical Question ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Oral Speech ◽  
Media Reports

This article studies expressive syntax as a type of stylistic devices and illustrates its use in publicistic style economic oral and written media reports. The relevance of the research is that syntactic expressive means have not been thoroughly studied and analyzed in economic mass media. The work aims to identify the techniques that apply syntactic expressive means to evoke emotiveness in economic media reports. This article also addresses the recurrence of usage of expressive syntax in written and oral speech involving economic discourse. Using the method of text analysis on the bases of theoretical linguistic statements evaluating functional style, media stylistics, and stylistic devices in the English language, we determined the diverse usage of expressive syntax in both videocasting and written articles. From analyzed syntactic expressive means, we identified the frequency and common usage of such syntactic expressive means as rhetorical question and simple repetition in oral and written reports. The sample analysis indicated that a paragraph in any economic report might restrain more than one occurrence of expressive syntax; these carry a manipulative function through psychological phenomena represented via syntactic expressive means.

New Perspectives Of Media-Text Under The Conditions Of Mass Media Conversion

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Avaz Khamitovich Mirzajonov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Individual Recognition ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
The Real ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Modern Mass

The article is devoted to the analysis of changes in the communication processes of the late XX - early XXI centuries, reflecting the powerful impact on the real life of modern mass media, the problems associated with understanding media text in the condition of Mass Media convergence, clarifying the role of the Mass Media in forming society and individual recognition and how far their influence extends on modern man.

scholarly journals Role of New Mass Media in Federal Republic of Germany. „Party Democracy“ versus „Media Democracy“

2018 ◽  
pp. 208-220
Author(s):  
Iryna Vereschahina
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Media Democracy ◽  
Modern Mass

The article deals with the analysis of main problems of the role of new mass media, their relations with German political parties and development of media democracy in Federal Republic of Germany. Considering the rapid development of mass media the author investigates media as political instrument and autonomic political actor at the same time, analyses relations between the mass media and political parties, opportunity of changes in the parties, changes of party structure and the role of German parties. The process of „mediatization“ and its influence on the policy and party democracy is defined. The study found that the modern mass media have influence on public sector and political transformations and accelarate the progress of media democracy in Federal Republic of Germany as well.

scholarly journals Nacer en la Liquidez

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALFIA LEIVA DEL VALLE
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Fake News ◽  
On Line ◽  
Cuerpo Femenino

Debido al rampante desarrollo tecnológico, y los cambios en la forma de entender nuestro día a día, han surgido nuevos abordajes explicando el ahora, la “liquidez” y la “ligereza”, términos acuñados por Gilles Lipovetzky y Zygmund Bauman, son una constante en diversas áreas del conocimiento, filosófico, artístico, sociológico, tecnológico incluso económico. El lenguaje se transforma por una necesidad, que refleja un profundo cambio en la sociedad.   En este trabajo se analiza como estas descripciones de nuestra realidad, como “fake news”, “binge wathching”, “retropia”, “bullying”, “polite sex”, “pendulum liberty”, y, específicamente como características de las Diosas primigenias y el imaginario femenino de nuestros días, se retoman con fuerza en ámbitos de las artes plásticas , la mass media y los videos y videojuegos.   Hemos clasificado a las generaciones como baby boomers (1946 – 1964), millenials generación Y, generación X (1980–2000) y ahora la generación líquida( 2000-2019).   Como se ve el mundo líquido, por un no líquido y un líquido. Enormes diferencias en la forma de entender el mundo que nos rodea y sus características, en todos los ámbitos, y específicamente, motivo de esta investigación, específicamente se refiere a el cuerpo femenino, el amor líquido y sus vínculos con el arte.   Como entender al que ha nacido líquido, su relación con el amor, las relaciones efímeras y como esto se ve reflejado en el arte. Las transformaciones en el entendimiento del cuerpo femenino, como ejemplos señalo el extendido uso del los tatuajes, la cirugía plástica y las costumbres hípsters, como se ve la moda en las nuevas diosas primigenias, las actitudes de la generación líquida ante los vínculos humanos, el análisis de las relaciones on-line, la transformación de la agresividad “el bullying “ la inestabilidad emocional y su reflejo en el arte líquido.

From Tracking to Trolling to Tribalism

Hard White ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Richard C. Fording ◽  
Sanford F. Schram
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Fox News ◽  
The Mass Media

Chapter 6 focuses on the role of a changing media landscape in disseminating misinformation to a disproportionately underinformed audience to support Donald Trump. It shows how the Trump campaign and its allies, including the contract firm Cambridge Analytica as well as Russian operatives, exploited the changing media landscape to spread misinformation to sow racial division and stoke white outgroup hostility. The chapter examines the nexus between Fox News, fake news, and Trump to provide evidence of the specific connection that demonstrates the key role of the mass media, social media included, in disseminating misinformation about outgroups and sustaining high levels of outgroup hostility among whites.

scholarly journals Phraseological picture of the world in the texts of modern mass media

XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-128
Author(s):  
Sagira Odanova ◽  
Botagoz Nurzhanova ◽  
Bayan Akkozhina ◽  
Zharkynai Kokanova ◽  
Bakhytzhamal Sadyrbayeva
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Language Representation ◽  
National Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Modern Mass

The article deals with the definition of the phraseological picture of the world, reviews the existing approaches to its study in modern linguistics, and analyzes the objects of existing research that affect the problems of national representation of fragments of the phraseological picture of the world in the minds of native speakers. Also, the article examines the language picture of the world as a subject of study in the theories of modern communication. The article gives an up-to-date description of the content of this concept and its classification on various grounds (based on the object, subject, principles, and methods of language representation). The role of the linguistic picture of the world in the framework of the theory of intercultural and mass communication in semiotic and cognitive research is analyzed. The article further deals with the development and research of the linguistic picture of the world by both foreign and domestic scientists in this field. It describes the influence of the language of mass media on the picture of the world, namely, the work of journalists, where they use phraseology not only as it exists in the language, but also in a modified form, updating the semantics, structure and expressive and stylistic properties of phraseological turns.

Media and fake news: An analysis of citizens’ attitudes toward misinformation in European countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-190
Author(s):  
Mauro Ferrante ◽  
Anna Maria Parroco
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Quality Of Data ◽  
Statistical Literacy ◽  
World Economic ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Media ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
Categorical Response

The rapid changes determined by the rise of Internet and the recent development of social media in daily life have led to profound consequences on the quantity and quality of data made available and on the mechanisms of their dissemination. The rapid spread of on-line disinformation is one of the most discussed topic, and has been identified as one of the top-trends in modern societies by the World Economic Forum, also because of the link between these processes and political communication. Thanks to the availability of micro-data from the Flash Eurobarometer survey on “Fake news and disinformation online”, the present work aims at analyzing the attitude of European citizens toward fake news and disinformation. In a first step, cluster of citizens are identified according to their level of trust in media news, in relation to different types of media. Given the categorical nature of the variables considered, k-mode clustering is implemented. Secondly, the main determinants of news trust levels are analyzed, through regression models for categorical response variables. Preliminary results show that socio-demographic characteristics as well as technological use have an influence on trust in the media, which in turn determines different approaches on the role of institutions in tackling disinformation. The relevance of fake news in contemporary period and its potential consequences on the political side require a reflection on the role of statistical literacy and of official statistical institutes in dealing with disinformation in the post-truth era.

Getting out the truth: the role of libraries in the fight against fake news

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Batchelor
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Political System ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Library Professionals

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to inform library professionals on the issues, impact and methods of addressing misinformation in news. Design/methodology/approach This paper discusses the history, scope and impact of fake news and the tools available for correcting misinformation. Findings Fake news and misinformation are widespread and detrimental to democracy. A misinformed electorate undermines the political system. Originality/value The paper does not present original findings, but it presents many useful tools for library professionals to use as a means of promoting critical thinking.

scholarly journals Kazanga. Ethnicity in Africa between State and Tradition

Afrika Focus ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Van Binsbergen
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Key Words ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
The State ◽  
Court Culture ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
The 19Th Century

The production of cultural forms at the interface between a rural-based tradition and the state is a familiar aspect of ethnicity in contemporary Africa. This paper seeks to identify some of the characteristics of thisprocess, whose products are too often misunderstood, and cherished, as 'authentic' forms of 'tradition'. Highlighting the role of ethnic brokers, of the modern mass media, and of a model of commoditifled 'performance ' as an aspect of contemporary electronic mass culture, the argument explores the production of expressive culture in the context of the Kazanga cultural association and its Kazanga annual festival among the Nkoya people of central western Zambia since the early 1980s, against the background of Nkoya ethnicity and Nkoya expressive and court culture since the 19th century. KEY WORDS: associations, brokers, commoditification, dance, ethnicity, festivals, music, Nkoya, state, Zambia 

scholarly journals “Fake News” or Real Science? Critical Thinking to Assess Information on COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanca Puig ◽  
Paloma Blanco-Anaya ◽  
Jorge J. Pérez-Maceira
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
World Health ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Real Science ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
News Headlines

Few people question the important role of critical thinking in students becoming active citizens; however, the way science is taught in schools continues to be more oriented toward “what to think” rather than “how to think.” Researchers understand critical thinking as a tool and a higher-order thinking skill necessary for being an active citizen when dealing with socio-scientific information and making decisions that affect human life, which the pandemic of COVID-19 provides many opportunities for. The outbreak of COVID-19 has been accompanied by what the World Health Organization (WHO) has described as a “massive infodemic.” Fake news covering all aspects of the pandemic spread rapidly through social media, creating confusion and disinformation. This paper reports on an empirical study carried out during the lockdown in Spain (March–May 2020) with a group of secondary students (N = 20) engaged in diverse online activities that required them to practice critical thinking and argumentation for dealing with coronavirus information and disinformation. The main goal is to examine students’ competence at engaging in argumentation as critical assessment in this context. Discourse analysis allows for the exploration of the arguments and criteria applied by students to assess COVID-19 news headlines. The results show that participants were capable of identifying true and false headlines and assessing the credibility of headlines by appealing to different criteria, although most arguments were coded as needing only a basic epistemic level of assessment, and only a few appealed to the criterion of scientific procedure when assessing the headlines.

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