Cabañes, Jason Vincent; Anderson, C. W. and Ong, Jonathan Corpus. 2019. Fake news and scandal. In: Howard Tumber and Silvio Waisbord, eds. The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 115-126. ISBN 9780815387596 [Book Section]

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We argue that there are four ways we both understand and misunderstand fake news as a research concept. This includes seeing fake news as text rather than visual content; as either “true” or “false” information rather than as facts embedded within narratives; as surface level content rather than being produced within institutional processes; and from a “Western-centric” lens rather than from a comparative context. As we will argue in our conclusion, these foci make connecting empirical work on fake news to larger media theories of visibility and surveillance more difficult. In particular, they make it harder to connect questions of fake news to sociologies of scandal and the public sphere.

Item Type:	Book Section
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351173001
Additional Information:	“This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal on 29 March 2019, available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Media-and-Scandal/Tumber-Waisbord/p/book/9781032093192. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.”
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 14 September 2018 Accepted 29 March 2019 Published
Item ID:	36896
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2024 11:39
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2024 04:09
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36896

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