Fake News as Discursive Integration: An Analysis of Sites That Publish False, Misleading, Hyperpartisan and Sensational Information

After the 2016 US presidential election, the concept of fake news captured popular attention, but conversations lacked a clear conceptualization and used the label in elastic ways to describe various distinct phenomena. In this paper, we analyze fake news as genre blending, combining elements of tra...

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Published in:Journalism studies (London, England) England), 2019-10, Vol.20 (14), p.2077-2095
Main Authors: Mourão, Rachel R., Robertson, Craig T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bias
Concept formation
Content analysis
Deception
Elections
Fake news
False information
Identity
Identity politics
Journalism
Misinformation
News
News media
Partisanship
Politics
Presidential elections
Presidents
sensationalism
Social media
Truth
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