Essays about: "fact-checking"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the word fact-checking.

  1. 1. 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 kommunikation

    Author : Axel Furusten; [2023]
    Keywords : Trust; News media trust; News media use; Generation Z; Digital natives; News consumption; Sweden; Public connection; Media practice;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 2. The Impact of the Retrieval Text Set for Text Sentiment Classification With the Retrieval-Augmented Language Model REALM

    University essay from KTH/Matematik (Inst.)

    Author : Oscar Blommegård; [2023]
    Keywords : The Impact of the Retrieval Text Set for Text Sentiment Classification With the Retrieval-Augmented Language Model REALM; Hämtningsförstärkta språkmodeller; Natural Language Processing; Transformers; Djupinlärning; Textklassificering;

    Abstract : Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive results across various language technology tasks. By training on large corpora of diverse text collections from the internet, these models learn to process text effectively, allowing them to acquire comprehensive world knowledge. READ MORE

  4. 3. Information, news, and politics gathering through social media by Generation Z : A semi-structured interview study

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Handelshögskolan (from 2013)

    Author : Emil Magnusson; [2023]
    Keywords : Social media; generation Z; information; news; politics; personalization; misinformation.;

    Abstract : Social media is replacing many of traditional media’s purposes, information gathering is one of them. In the digital culture today we use our phones, the internet, and social media in our daily lives, especially younger generations, and those generations could be relying their information gathering on social media. READ MORE

  5. 4. Fake News in the Polish Information Sphere Following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Sara Thompson; [2022]
    Keywords : fake news; Poland; Ukraine; Russia; framing; content analysis;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a qualitative study of fake news disseminated in Poland as a result of the outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022. It aims to contribute to the public knowledge about the most prominent themes of the Polish fake news and the topics prone to be used as disinformation and as a weapon of war in a conflict setting. READ MORE

  6. 5. Citizen OSINT Analysts : Motivations of Open-Source Intelligence Volunteers

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Journalistik

    Author : Josie Cochrane; [2022]
    Keywords : open-source intelligence; citizen journalism; self-determination theory; social media; Russia-Ukraine war; fact-checking; activist journalism; psychology; media psychology;

    Abstract : The amount of open-source information – that is, data, images, and footage that is openly available to the public - is growing exponentially. With it, so is the number of citizens analysing this data to form open-source intelligence (OSINT). READ MORE