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Shirsat, Abhijeet.

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Understanding the Allure and Danger of Fake News in Social Media Environments.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Understanding the Allure and Danger of Fake News in Social Media Environments./
Author:	Shirsat, Abhijeet.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	163 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-01A(E).
Subject:	Mass communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10959562
ISBN:	9780438276055

Understanding the Allure and Danger of Fake News in Social Media Environments.
Shirsat, Abhijeet.

Understanding the Allure and Danger of Fake News in Social Media Environments. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 163 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2018.

In 1785, Thomas Jefferson wrote,"The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers... [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of news writers who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper" (Sec.51). Jefferson's views are as salient today as they were in 1785. Some 232 years later, a "mass of people" struggle to distinguish between news that is real and news that is false. The largest context for this struggle to date was the 2016 United States presidential election (Pew Center, 2016c). For some, the "fake news" found on social media has become a harbinger for the emergence of a despotic government (Pew Center).

ISBN: 9780438276055Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144804
Mass communication.

Understanding the Allure and Danger of Fake News in Social Media Environments.
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520 $a The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the phenomenon of fake news through the lived experience of graduate students in the United States. The prospective student participants were pursuing advanced degrees in higher education. This research study utilized the uses and gratifications theory (UGT) approach to analyze how and why people used social media during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In light of the influence of fake news on the 2016 presidential election, this study also aimed to investigate the reasons why people believed that fake news were appealing.
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