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
Part 1: Understanding Fake News
1. The Path to Fake News
2. Conceptual Considerations
Part 2: The Impact of Fake News
3. How Singaporean Teens Assess the Credibility of News and News Sources
4. Singaporean Teens' Awareness and Responses to Fake News
5. Parent-Child Relationships and Fake News
6. Millennials and Boomers: Generational Gaps and Acts of Authentication
7. Public Communication in the Age of Fake News
8. Journalists and Fake News: The Experience of Filipino and Singaporean Journalists
Part 3: Fake News Across Countries
9. Combating Misinformation During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from China
10. Polarization and Misinformation in Hong Kong
11. Fake News in Taiwan: How People Authenticate Fact from Fiction
12. Perspectives from the Great Steppe: Kazakhstan in the Era of Fake News
13. Fake News in India: Superstitions, Myths, and Xenophobia
14. The War Against Health-Related Fake News in Thailand
15. Fake News in Vietnam: The Bad and The Ugly
16. Information Disorder and Fake News in Vietnam: The Endless Combat
17. An Outlier in Asia? Why Japanese People Don't See Fake News as a Serious Threat
18. Indonesia's War on Fake News: Ignoring the Closer Enemies?
19. Race, Religion, Politics, and Cybertroopers: Fake News in Malaysia
20. Machinery of Disinformation in the 2022 Philippine Elections
21. The Weaponization of "Fake News" in South Korea
Part 4: Fighting Fakes
22. Disease or Dissent? What Anti-Fake News Laws in South and Southeast Asia Really Aim to Regulate
23. Fact-Checking in Asian Countries: Routines, Roles, and Rules
24. Debunking Online Falsehoods in India: Risks and Challenges
25. Considerations for Crafting a Curriculum for Teenagers to Guard Against Online Falsehoods
Part 5: Looking Forward and Future Challenges
26. Social Media and Deepfakes: Examining Public Engagement with Deepfakes
27. Deepfake Identification: A Human-Oriented Perspective
28. The Path Forward
Index
