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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kendeou, Panayiota
• Harsch, Rina
• Butterfuss, Reese
• Aubele, Joseph
• Kim, Jasmine
• Lombardi, Doug
• List, Alexandra
• Van Meter, Peggy

Titel

The Challenge of Fake News: Intellectual Survival in the Context of Multiple Representations and Perspectives

Ist Teil von

• Handbook of Learning from Multiple Representations and Perspectives, 2020, p.477-494

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this chapter, we identify challenges that fake news poses to our intellectual survival. We view fake news as a contaminant to our information ecosystem and propose the Fake News Pyramid by incorporating parallels to models of disease spread. Our discussion of challenges and solutions is situated in the “information disorder” framework, with a distinction between the human and technology level at each phase of the news cycle. We conclude that to comprehensively combat the creation, exposure, and distribution of fake news, we must propose actionable solutions drawing on multiple perspectives and representations. Combatting the creation of fake news appears to be a greater challenge when it is intentional or involves financial incentives. Gatekeeping refers to a multi-level verification process traditionally used by journalists, newspapers, and other forms of print media to control the kind of information that would be reported to the masses. Detection of fake news should start in the classroom, where students can be taught about the continued influence of misinformation and the cognitive biases that make them susceptible to misinformation. The internet, and social media more specifically, have become a primary information source for both journalists and ordinary news readers. The challenges from technology-enhanced spreading of fake news online necessitates solutions that are also technology-enhanced. Fake news spreads because humans spread it. Indeed, humans spread fake news more quickly and widely than they spread real news. Creating fake news presents many opportunities for monetary gain.