Essays about: "fake news"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 64 essays containing the words fake news.
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1. EFL Students’ Analysing and Evaluating Skills in Social Media Content : EFL elevers analys- och utvärderingsförmåga i sociala mediers innehåll
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)Abstract : This paper is a synthesis of research that presents and reflects on the possible benefits of integrating media information literacy and critical thinking into the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum with the intention of facilitating for students' development in their critical thinking and media information literacy when engaging with English-language social media content. English is of major significance in the Swedish society and students get some of their news feed from social media in the English language along with their native language of Swedish. READ MORE
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2. Parallel Reality. A Freaky Freaky Broadcast.
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musikAbstract : My research was on how news is being presented to the public and the means of manipulation that are being used to patronise the public in the intended direction. The product was a performance based on a fictional news bulletin. Fake news but also true facts behind the words. Exaggeration was my main tool to convince. READ MORE
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3. Exploring the Trust - Distrust dichotomy : a study about news media use and news media trust among Swedish upper secondary school students of Generation Z
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikationAbstract : In this thesis, news media use and trust among Swedish upper secondary schools students of Generation Z is investigated through focus group interviews with students from two different schools. This study aims to explain how and why Swedish upper secondary school students of Generation Z use and perceive news media, with focus on the relations between news media trust and news media use. READ MORE
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4. A Preliminary Observation: Can One Linguistic Feature Be the Deterministic Factor for More Accurate Fake News Detection?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : This study inspected three linguistic features, specifically the percentage of nouns per sentence, the percentage of verbs per sentence, as well as the mean of dependency distance of the sentence, and observed their respective influence on the fake news classification accuracy. In comparison to the previous studies where linguistic features are combined as a set to be leveraged, this study attempted to untangle the effective individual features from the previously proposed optimal sets. READ MORE
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5. Between East and West: How Serbian journalists cover the war in Ukraine : A qualitative study investigating how journalism culture shapes Serbian coverage when framing the conflict in Ukraine
University essay from Södertörns högskola/JournalistikAbstract : The press coverage of any armed conflict has traditionally played a crucial role during times of war since major abuses of human rights and war crimes are brought to the public due to journalists’ coverage. When Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February 2022, it dominated the news for weeks since many parts of the world were heavily affected. READ MORE
