"Fake News Is Bad News: Hoaxes, Half-truths and the Nature of Today's Journalism" ed. by Ján Višňovský, Jana Radošinská

This publication is focused on the ways fake news, disinformation, misinformation and hateful statements are spread across society, predominantly within the online environment. Its main ambition is to offer an interdisciplinary body of scholarly knowledge on fake news, disinformation and propaganda in relation to today’s journalism, social development, political situation and cultural affairs happening all around the world.

We live in the era of the digital revolution characterized by easy access to obtaining, processing and disseminating information on a global scale. The emergence of these global digital spaces has transformed the world of communication. This shift in our understanding of what we should be informed about, when and how, manifests itself not only within mature liberal democracies, which grant their citizens and the media constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and rights associated with obtaining information, but also within developing countries with different types of political establishments. Moreover, many media producers, especially journalists and persons claiming to be journalists, abuse their crucial mission and, instead, foster a set of serious communication phenomena that threaten basic human rights and freedoms, weaken them or decelerate their development.

Contents
1. Introductory Chapter: Journalism Facing Both Pandemic and ‘Infodemic’
2. A Disinformation-Misinformation Ecology: The Case of Trump
3. Debunking as a Method of Uncovering Disinformation and Fake News
4. Lightweight and Simplified Truth as a Kind of Distortion of Social-Everyday Reality
5. Democracy, Freedom and Truth at a Time of Digital Disruption: An Equation with Three Unknowns?
6. Fake News as Aberration in Journalism Practice: Examining Truth and Facts as Basis of Fourth Estate of the Realm
7. Alternative News and Misinterpretations: Fake News and Its Spread in Nigeria
8. The Replication and Spread of Functional Food Messages: The Influence of Personalities on Internet Meme Behavior
9. The Potentials of Radio in Combating Misinformation about COVID-19 in Nigeria
10. Disinformation as a Society-Wide Threat: Journalism and ‘Fakecracy’ in Venezuela
11. The Scramble for Cyberspace: Internet-Based Reporting of Genocide in the Southern Cameroon-Ambazonia Crisis
12. Framing Xenophobia on Social Media: An Analysis of Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians Living in South Africa
13. COVID-19 Infodemic and Indian Media: An Evaluative Study


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