Reprint
Fighting Fake News: A Generational Approach
Edited by
November 2022
172 pages
- ISBN978-3-0365-5719-9 (Hardback)
- ISBN978-3-0365-5720-5 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Fighting Fake News: A Generational Approach that was published in
Business & Economics
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary
The book focuses on how different generations perceive fake news, including young and middle-age groups of people, multiple age groups, university students and adults in general, elementary students, children, and adolescents. It provides insights into the different methodologies available with which to research fake news from a generational perspective.
Format
- Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
fake news and online information; children and adolescents and fake news; vulnerability to fake news; age; confirmation bias; fake news; heuristic approach; politics; source; wild wide web; fake news; new literacies; web literacy; critical thinking; reliability reasoning; libraries; librarians; disinformation; fake news; literacy practices; open-access resources; conspiracy theories; COVID-19 pandemic; digital disinformation; religiosity; fake news incidence; “fake news” and potentially manipulative content; digital media; generational approach; media literacy; n/a; online content; factor assessment; trustworthiness; age; gender; education level