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标题：Fake news and its impact on trust in the news. Using the Portuguese case to establish lines of differentiation
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作者：Tiago Lima-Quintanilha ; Marisa Torres-da-Silva ; Tiago Lapa 等
期刊名称：Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad)
电子版ISSN：2386-7876
出版年度：2019
卷号：32
期号：3
页码：17-32
DOI：10.15581/003.32.3.17-32
出版社：Universidad de Navarra
其他摘要：While a far from recent phenomenon, fake news has acquired a very special significance in the wake of the latest US elections. Against a broad background of different definitions and subtypes that require us to find a new, broader definition of the concept of fake news, the main debate about it concerns its scope and reach, which vary primarily in terms of intentionality and exactly how it disrupts the information process. With the discussion also focusing on the threats to (McChesney, 2014; Fisher, 2018) and opportunities for (Beckett, 2017) journalism itself, we seek to expand the debate on fake news to its impact on the dimension of trust in news. The starting point is Fletcher and Nielsen’s (2017) idea that, because they don’t make a clear distinction between real and fake news, Internet users feel a generalised sense of distrust in the media. Using data from the latest (2018) Reuters Digital News Report survey of a representative sample of the Portuguese Internet-using population, we describe the main reasons why the Portuguese (increasingly familiar with fake news and disinformation and their impacts) have been displaying higher levels of trust in news than counterparts in other countries, such as the United States –reasons that are linked to Portugal’s media system and historical context.
关键词：Fake news; Trust in news; Impact of fake news on trust in news; Lines of differentiation; Portugal; Portuguese media system.
其他关键词：Fake news;Trust in news;Impact of fake news on trust in news;Lines of differentiation;Portugal;Portuguese media system