Fake News or Misinformation? The Messy Conceptual Landscape of Journalistic Terminology

Press/Media: Press / Media

25/04/2024

 

“Fake news”, “Junk news”, and “Misinformation” – there are a lot of concepts out there for journalists to use to describe similar phenomena. But do they really mean the same thing, and what are the implications of prioritising one over another? Johan Farkas has been studying how Danish journalists use and define these terms in the contemporary media landscape.

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    Research areas

  • fake news, disinformation, misinformaton, junk news, journalism, objectivity

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