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Fake news - a manufactured deception, distortion and disinformation is the new challenge to digital literacy
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pandey, Neha |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | In an era of information age, the defining variable of the age i.e. information is facing a tsunami in the form of fake news. Tsunami because it came all of a sudden, created havoc and is gargantuan in proportion. Facts have become a misnomer and reality an imagination. Confusion and chaos are the hurdle blocks for the one who wants to navigate through the digital landscape. The line between facts and fictions had been trounced. What is all the more alarming is that the fake-news tsunami is not a natural incidence but a whole business which blooms and grows on fabricated content and has become the new currency of globalized digitalization. Study on the spread of fake information, through social media and online networks, has become a significant object of scholarly research. Estimates suggest some fake news sites receive 50%-80% of their traffic via Facebook alone. This paper is a sincere attempt to map fake news into digital landscape by analysing its entry, varieties and survival. It also explores the various possibilities of duping users through a combination of intention and software algorithms. In the end, the researcher analyses how digital literacy and willingness on part of users can prove as a remedy in combating the fake news virus. If anything good has come from the recent furore over fake news and its menace, it is that fake news has highlighted the importance of making sure that the information one consumes and, especially, the information one shares is credible. It is like anti-virus potion which is created automatically. Or in simpler terms, it is like cultivating the habit to consume healthy, hygienic and balanced diet and toning the cognitive immune system. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.31620/jccc.12.18/04 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.amity.edu/gwalior/JCCC/pdf/JCCC-16012019-15-21.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.31620/jccc.12.18%2F04 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Notice |
