Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News

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Autor(a) principal: Tejedor, Santiago
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Portalés-Oliva, Marta, Carniel-Bugs, Ricardo, Cervi, Laura
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i1.3516
Resumo: Technological platforms, such as social media, are disrupting traditional journalism, as a result the access to high-quality information by citizens is facing important challenges, among which, disinformation and the spread of fake news are the most relevant one. This study approaches how journalism students perceive and assess this phenomenon. The descriptive and exploratory research is based on a hybrid methodology: Two matrix surveys of students and a focus group of professors (n = 6), experts in Multimedia Journalism. The first survey (n = 252), focused on students’ perception of fake news, the second (n = 300) aims at finding out the type of content they had received during the recent confinement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Results show that most of the students prefer online media as a primary source of information instead of social media. Students consider that politics is the main topic of fake news, which, according to the respondents, are mainly distributed by adult users through social networks. The vast majority believe that fake news are created for political interests and a quarter of the sample considers that there is a strong ideological component behind disinformation strategies. Nonetheless, the study also reveals that students do not trust in their ability to distinguish between truthful and false information. For this reason, this research concludes, among other aspects, that the promotion of initiatives and research to promote media literacy and news literacy are decisive in the training of university students.
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title Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News
spellingShingle Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News
Tejedor, Santiago
fake news; information consumption; journalism; media literacy; university
title_short Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News
title_full Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News
title_fullStr Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News
title_full_unstemmed Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News
title_sort Journalism Students and Information Consumption in the Era of Fake News
author Tejedor, Santiago
author_facet Tejedor, Santiago
Portalés-Oliva, Marta
Carniel-Bugs, Ricardo
Cervi, Laura
author_role author
author2 Portalés-Oliva, Marta
Carniel-Bugs, Ricardo
Cervi, Laura
author2_role author
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author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Tejedor, Santiago
Portalés-Oliva, Marta
Carniel-Bugs, Ricardo
Cervi, Laura
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv fake news; information consumption; journalism; media literacy; university
topic fake news; information consumption; journalism; media literacy; university
description Technological platforms, such as social media, are disrupting traditional journalism, as a result the access to high-quality information by citizens is facing important challenges, among which, disinformation and the spread of fake news are the most relevant one. This study approaches how journalism students perceive and assess this phenomenon. The descriptive and exploratory research is based on a hybrid methodology: Two matrix surveys of students and a focus group of professors (n = 6), experts in Multimedia Journalism. The first survey (n = 252), focused on students’ perception of fake news, the second (n = 300) aims at finding out the type of content they had received during the recent confinement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Results show that most of the students prefer online media as a primary source of information instead of social media. Students consider that politics is the main topic of fake news, which, according to the respondents, are mainly distributed by adult users through social networks. The vast majority believe that fake news are created for political interests and a quarter of the sample considers that there is a strong ideological component behind disinformation strategies. Nonetheless, the study also reveals that students do not trust in their ability to distinguish between truthful and false information. For this reason, this research concludes, among other aspects, that the promotion of initiatives and research to promote media literacy and news literacy are decisive in the training of university students.
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