Fake News as a New Trend in Political Communications

The fake news phenomenon is not new to political communications. But in 2016 at the presidential election in the United States, this phenomenon came to the fore and took the agenda. New communication technologies have created new ways of creating, disseminating and consuming fake news, which makes i...

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Main Author: M.V. Proshina
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Publishing House Discourse-P 2019-08-01
Series:Дискурс Пи
Online Access: http://madipi.ru/images/uploads/164-171_Прошина.pdf
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Summary:The fake news phenomenon is not new to political communications. But in 2016 at the presidential election in the United States, this phenomenon came to the fore and took the agenda. New communication technologies have created new ways of creating, disseminating and consuming fake news, which makes it difficult to highlight the information that you can trust. In this regard, many studies have appeared. The main problem of most researchers is becoming a greater number of approaches to the definition of the phenomenon of wake news. This article provides an overview of research on the Fake news phenomenon and analysis of new social media, content analysis and cluster analysis. The subject of this study is the politicization of "fake news" using the social network Twitter. Ключевые слова: fake news, political communication, social network analysis, propaganda, manipulation social media, news.
ISSN:1817-9568