Audience understandings of disinformation: navigating news media through a prism of pragmatic scepticism
Audience understandings of disinformation: navigating news media through a prism of pragmatic scepticism
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DOI：
10.1177/14648849221114244
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发表时间：
2022-07-20
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2.9
通讯作者：
Hughes, Ceri
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作者：
Kyriakidou, Maria;Morani, Marina;Hughes, Ceri
近年来，虚假信息的内容和影响已成为传播学研究的焦点。但媒体受众自己如何解读虚假信息的含义，并减轻其对世界的理解带来的风险，在很大程度上仍然没有得到充分的研究。本文借鉴了英国的一项焦点小组研究，该研究考察了人们如何将虚假信息概念化，以及这些信息是如何影响他们与新闻媒体的接触的。我们的发现表明，对虚假信息的常见定义超出了“假新闻”和阴谋论的范畴，包括一系列现象，如有偏见的新闻、政治炒作和歪曲信息。我们认为，受众不仅不信任信息源，也不是虚假信息的被动接受者，而是对他们与不同平台上的媒体的关系产生了一种务实的怀疑，这反映了对新闻媒体作为文本和机构的批判性阅读。
The content and effects of disinformation have become a focal point in communication studies over recent years. But how media audiences themselves interpret the meaning of disinformation and mitigate the risks it poses to their understanding of the world have remained largely understudied. This article draws upon a UK-based focus group study that examines how people conceptualise disinformation, and the ways this informs their engagement with news media. Our findings revealed that common definitions of disinformation go beyond 'fake news' and conspiracy theories to include an array of phenomena, such as biased news, political spin and misrepresented information. Far from simply not trusting information sources or being passive recipients of disinformation, we argue that audiences have developed a pragmatic scepticism in their relationship with media across different platforms, which reflects a critical reading of news media both as texts and institutions.