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

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“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.

Period25 Apr 2024

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  • TitleFake News or Misinformation? The Messy Conceptual Landscape of Journalistic Terminology
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletNordicom Network
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritorySweden
    Date25/04/2024
    Description“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.
    Producer/AuthorMia Jonsson Lindell
    URLhttps://nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/fake-news-or-misinformation-the-messy-conceptual-landscape-of-journalistic-terminology/
    PersonsJohan Farkas
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Keywords

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