Fake News Across Asian Countries

This book integrates insights from studies conducted across Asia to provide a comprehensive account of the fake news problem in the region.

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Edson C. Tandoc Jr. is President's Chair Professor of Communication Studies at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) in Singapore. He is also the founding Director of NTU's Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet (IN-cube) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is the author of Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of Critical Incidents in Journalism: Pivotal Moments Reshaping Journalism around the World (Routledge, 2020). His studies have focused on the impact of journalistic roles, new technologies, and audience feedback on the news gatekeeping process. He has also looked at how readers make sense of critical incidents in journalism and take part in reconsidering journalistic norms; and how changing news consumption patterns facilitate the spread of fake news.

Inhalt

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