Fake News Related to the Coronavirus. Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (34) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Urbanek
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Media

The aim of the article is to analyze fake news related to coronavirus and assign selected examples to the categories of fake news presented in the literature. Various types of fake news disseminated in the Internet in Polish language were analyzed. The study is preceded by a discussion on the origin, specificity, types, and available classifications of fake news obtained from the available literature. On the basis of the analysis, it can be concluded that many fake news items appeared in the media discussion on the threat of coronavirus, differing in terms of sources, form, and content. Their diversity is reflected in the numerousness of fake news categories, distinguished by the creators of the classifications of this phenomenon.

scholarly journals Language Means for Shaping the Media Image of China in Russian Internet Texts (Case Study of Blogs about the Chinese Opera)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Юйси Му
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Media Image ◽  
Chinese Opera ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The World ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
The Media

The article presents the study of the media image of China in the Russian Internet texts. The purpose of the study is to identify the language means of shaping the media image of China in blogs about Chinese opera. The material involves some of the topical blogs published on the Internet version of «Live Journal» and the «Magazeta». In those materials, the media image of China is partially formed by various aspects of Chinese opera as a cultural phenomenon: it is the cultural context in which Chinese opera exists; features of diverse opera genres; images of performers; audience responses; assessments and feelings of bloggers. The possibilities of expression of different kinds of language means are revealed, so is the authors’ perception of this type of art. It is concluded that the media image created in blogs about Chinese opera by various language means represents China as a country with a long history and unique culture. Chinese opera not only occupies an important place in the world art, but also vividly and meaningfully reflects the mystery of China.

scholarly journals The Internet´s role in the Bersih movement in Malaysia – A Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
Melanie Radue
Keyword(s):  
Green Revolution ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Liberalization ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Technological Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of The Internet

Everywhere in the media, people talk about the so-called “Twitter and Facebook revolution” in regard to the Green Revolution in Iran or other new social movements which demand democratization in their countries and use the Internet for communication and mobilization. Libertarian advocates of the Internet state that the Internet has democratizing effects because of its reputed egalitarian, open and free technological structure for communication processes. Especially in countries in which the media is under strict control by the government, these characteristics are emphasized as stimulation for political liberalization and democratization processes. This essay critically examines the alleged democratizing effect of the use of the Internet on the Malaysian society exemplified on the social movement Bersih. The Bersih movement demands free and fair elections in Malaysia, often described as an ethnocratic and “electoral authoritarian regime”. 141 The objective of this study is to demonstrate the dependency of such possible effects on context.

A Taxonomy Approach to Fake News

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Valchanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Channels ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Media Corporations

The development of the Internet and social media and networks as a media environment and communication channels combined with the specificity of the journalistic profession in the online environment are a factor which contributes to the emergence and proliferation of fake news. The lack of reliable fact checking by the media and the fast news consumption by the public lead to mass disinformation about certain issues or subjects. The current paper examines fake news from several points of view and describes the models of their use – as harmless jokes, as lack of journalistic competence or professionalism and as means of manipulation and intentional misleading of public opinion. The attempts of big media corporations to fight fake news are also described.

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
The Public ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Impact

This epilogue comments on the changes within the Polish American community and the Polish-language press during the most recent decades, including the impact of the Internet and social media on the practice of letter-writing. It also poses questions about the legacy and memory of Paryski in Toledo, Ohio, and in Polonia scholarship. Paryski's life and career were based on his intelligence, determination, and energy. He believed that Poles in the United States, as in Poland, must benefit from education, and that education was not necessarily the same as formal schooling. Anybody could embark on the path to self-improvement if they read and wrote. Long before the Internet changed the way we communicate, Paryski and other ethnic editors effectively adopted and practiced the concept of debate within the public sphere in the media. Ameryka-Echo's “Corner for Everybody” was an embodiment of this concept and allowed all to express themselves in their own language and to write what was on their minds.

scholarly journals Information Behavior Culture of the RuNet Audience

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 984-988
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Fake News ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Consumption Culture ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Source Of Information

The purpose of this study is to analyze the formation of a media consumption culture in the information-rich multiconfessional and bilingual region of the Russian Federation – the Republic of Tatarstan. The authors of this article conducted a survey of 200 respondents aged 19-55 who are active users of the RuNet. The survey was carried out among students of the Kazan State Institute of Culture and Kazan Federal University, as well as media professionals from the Republic of Tatarstan. The anonymous survey was conducted in January-March 2019. Of all the respondents participated in this survey, 56% were aged 19-20. Eighty-three percent of the respondents were female – students, teachers and media workers of the Republic of Tatarstan. Sixty-five percent of them combined their education with work. Ninety-eight percent of the respondents received information from the Internet, 76% watched information programs on television, 27% listened to the radio and only 7.5% of the respondents still read newspapers. Sixty-eight percent of the surveyed trusted messages received from news agencies, while 78% trusted news messages received from news aggregators. Ninety percent of the respondents trusted information received from online media; 11% trusted the information received from social networks and only 4.5% of the respondents trusted the information discussed in blogs. The high percentage of trust to information obtained from the media and the low percentage of trust to information obtained from blogs indicates the current culture of media use and media literacy of the population in the situation with fake news. Of all the respondents answering the question "Do you refer to the source of information you use on the Internet?", 91.5% answered positively. Disturbingly, 92.5% of the surveyed believe that they do not have to pay for the information received from online media. The authors explain the refusal to pay for content with a small amount of exclusive and analytical materials in the information field of the Republic of Tatarstan

Employing artificial intelligence techniques as a mechanism for investigation, scrutiny, and detection of fake news and rumors

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-117
Author(s):  
Yosra Sobeih ◽  
El Taieb EL Sadek
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Machine Intelligence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Work ◽  
False News ◽  
Editorial Processing

Modern communication means have imposed many changes on the media work in the different stages of content production, starting from gathering news, visual and editorial processing, verification and verification of the truthfulness of what was stated in it until its publication, so the changes that were stimulated by modern means and technologies and artificial intelligence tools have affected all stages of news and media production, since the beginning of the emergence of rooms. Smart news that depends on human intelligence and then machine intelligence, which has become forced to keep pace with the development in communication means, which has withdrawn in the various stages of production, and perhaps the most important of which is the process of investigation and scrutiny and the detection of false news and rumors in our current era, which has become the spread of information very quickly through the Internet and websites Social media and various media platforms

scholarly journals European money in the Romanian village. Case study

Moldoscopie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Mazare ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Modern Technologies

The money from European funds opened new horizons for the inhabitants of Romanian villages. They began to look at the future with other eyes, got acquainted with modern technologies and made their work easier. The communal roads were paved, the houses became more beautiful, the living conditions of the villagers improved with the help of modern utilities – sewerage, natural gas, almost all agricultural plots are worked, the number of social workers decreased. The internet and the media have brought new information, many of which are useful and open to ideas. The number of advantages of accessing European funds far exceeds the number of disadvantages, including in Romanian village.

scholarly journals A INTENCIONALIDADE NAS NOTÍCIAS FALSAS: A NOTA DE REPÚDIO COMO ESTRATÉGIA DE DEFESA DO JORNALISMO NA ERA DAS FAKES NEWS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-109
Author(s):  
Maria Luciene Sampaio Barbosa ◽  
Vilso Junior Santi
Keyword(s):  
Fake News ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
Defense Strategies ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
De Se ◽  
The Media

Este artigo discute através do estudo de caso, a utilização da Nota de Repúdio como estratégia do jornal online Roraima em Tempo na defesa e resgate da credibilidade das notícias produzidas e divulgadas pelo jornalismo digital na era das fakes news. Com a publicação da nota de repúdio, levantou-se a questão se as fakes news causam preocupação e abalam a credibilidade do jornalismo online. Analisar esse mecanismo de defesa e repúdio utilizado pelo jornal abre a discussão sobre a intencionalidade das notícias falsas disseminadas na web. Essa análise foi feita tomando por aporte teórico o pensamento de Norbert Elias e John L. Scotson (2000) que tratam sobre relações de poder e Pierry Lévy (2003; 2007) que aponta para as mudanças na forma de se comunicar e nas relações ocasionadas pelo ciberespaço. A nota de repúdio no jornal Roraima em Tempo abriu espaço para uma discussão latente sobre a proliferação das notícias falsas, obrigando o veículo de comunicação a utilizar estratégias de defesa para reafirmar que o conteúdo por ele veiculado é verdadeiro e merece credibilidade.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Intencionalidade nas notícias; Notícias falsas; Nota de repúdio.     ABSTRACT   This article discusses through the case study the use of the Note of Repudiation as a strategy of the online newspaper Roraima em Tempo in defending and restoring the credibility of the news produced and disseminated by digital journalism in the era of fakes news. With the release of the repudiation note, the question arose as to whether fakes news causes concern and undermines the credibility of online journalism. Analyzing this defense and repudiation mechanism used by the newspaper opens the discussion about the intentionality of fake news disseminated on the web. This analysis was made taking as theoretical basis the thought of Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson (2000) that deal with power relations and Pierry Lévy (2003; 2007) that points to the changes in the way of communicating and the relations caused by the cyberspace. The note of repudiation in the newspaper Roraima em Tempo made room for a latent discussion about the proliferation of fake news, forcing the media to use defense strategies to reaffirm that the content it conveys is true and deserves credibility.   KEYWORDS: Intentionality in the news; Fake news; Note of repudiation.     RESUMEN   Este artículo discute a través del estudio de caso el uso de la Nota de Repudio como una estrategia del periódico en línea Roraima em Tempo para defender y restaurar la credibilidad de las noticias producidas y difundidas por el periodismo digital en la era de las noticias falsas. Con el lanzamiento de la nota de repudio, surgió la pregunta de si las noticias falsas causan preocupación y socavan la credibilidad del periodismo en línea. El análisis de este mecanismo de defensa y repudio utilizado por el periódico abre la discusión sobre la intencionalidad de las noticias falsas difundidas en la web. Este análisis se realizó tomando como base teórica el pensamiento de Norbert Elias y John L. Scotson (2000) que se ocupan de las relaciones de poder y Pierry Lévy (2003; 2007) que señala los cambios en la forma de comunicarse y las relaciones causadas por el ciberespacio La nota de repudio en el periódico Roraima em Tempo dejó espacio para una discusión latente sobre la proliferación de noticias falsas, obligando a los medios a usar estrategias de defensa para reafirmar que el contenido que transmite es verdadero y merece credibilidad.  PALABRAS CLAVE: Intencionalidad en las noticias; Noticias falsas; Nota de repudio.    

Online Hate Speech and the Safety of Internet Users

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (31) ◽  
pp. 139-159
Author(s):  
Barbara Kaczmarczyk ◽  
Marlena Dąbrowska ◽  
Piotr Szczepański ◽  
Izabela Nowicka
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Trained Teacher ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Media

Background: Hate speech is a very important problem nowadays. One can meet it in one’s immediate surroundings (conversations with friends), the media, the Internet, or in the so-called public space (for example, inscriptions on the walls). One form of hate speech is online hate speech, which, together with certain other phenomena, is referred to as hejt in the Polish language. The authors of the article focus on presenting online hate speech in relation to various age and social groups. Objectives: The aim of the article is to present the phenomenon of hate speech on the web and its impact on the safety of Internet users. Methods: The article uses basic theoretical and empirical methods. Content published on the Internet is analyzed and case studies are described. Interviews with experts (psychologists, police officers, sociologists, media and hate speech specialists) were also conducted and their views are presented. Conclusions: In the discussion about hate speech, prevention is extremely important. According to the authors, broad prevention consisting of professionally prepared content, enriched with film materials, presented by an expert or a trained teacher, should be included in the core curriculum of schools as one of the mandatory issues raised during the lessons.

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