Full Description
This book integrates insights from studies conducted across Asia to provide a comprehensive account of the fake news problem in the region.
Emerging from a study on how Singapore stakeholders define, determine, and deal with online falsehoods, the volume expands to cover numerous Asian contexts, all of which have experienced the problem in not only similar but also unique ways, coupled with diverse cultures and media regulatory contexts. Drawing from specific examples and case studies to demonstrate the real-world manifestation of the concepts and theories on fake news, the book grounds academic research in lived experiences.
This volume will interest journalism scholars and undergraduate and postgraduate students in the areas of media studies, mass communication, digital media, media literacy, Asian studies, and political communication.
Contents
Section 1: Understanding Fake News
1.1 The Path to Fake News
1.2 Conceptual Considerations
Section 2: The Impact of Fake News
2.1 How Singaporean Teens Assess the Credibility of News and News Sources
2.2 Singaporean Teens' Awareness and Responses to Fake News
2.3 Parent-Child Relationships and their Attitudes toward Fake News
2.4 Millennials and Boomers: Generational Gaps and Acts of Authentication
2.5 Public Communication in the Age of Fake News
2.6 Journalists and Fake News: The Experience of Filipino and Singaporean Journalists
Section 3: Fake News Across Countries
3.1 Combating Misinformation During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from China
3.2 Polarization and Misinformation in Hong Kong
3.3 Fake News in Taiwan: How People Authenticate Fact from Fiction
3.4 Perspectives from the Great Steppe: Kazakhstan in the Era of Fake News
3.5 Fake News in India: Superstitions, Myths, and Xenophobia
3.6 The War Against Health-Related Fake News in Thailand
3.7 Fake News in Vietnam: The Bad and The Ugly
3.8 Information Disorder and Fake News in Vietnam: The Endless Combat
3.9 An Outlier in Asia? Why Japanese People Don't See Fake News as a Serious Threat
3.10 Indonesia's War on Fake News: Ignoring the Closer Enemies?
3.11 Race, Religion, Politics, and Cybertroopers: Fake News in Malaysia
3.12 Machinery of Disinformation in the 2022 Philippine Elections
3.13 The Weaponization of "Fake News" in South Korea
Section 4: Fighting Fakes
4.1 Disease or Dissent? What Anti-Fake News Laws in South and Southeast Asia Really Aim to Regulate
4.2 Fact-Checking in Asian Countries: Routines, Roles, and Rules
4.3 Debunking Online Falsehoods in India: Risks and Challenges
4.4 Considerations for Crafting a Curriculum for Teenagers to Guard Against Online Falsehoods
Section 5: Looking Forward and Future Challenges
5.1 Social Media and Deepfakes: Examining Public Engagement with Deepfakes
5.2 Deepfake Identification: A Human-Oriented Perspective
5.3 The Path Forward
