Unveiling the truth : a systematic review of fact-checking and fake news research in social sciences
Tejedor, Santiago (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Romero-Rodríguez, Luis M. (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Gracia Villar, Monica (Universidad Europea del Atlantico)

Fecha:	2024
Descripción:	16 pàg.
Resumen:	The current media ecosystem, marked by immediacy and social networks dynamics, has created a fertile field for disinformation. Faced with its exponential growth, since 2014, research has focused on combating false content in the media. From a descriptive approach, this study has analyzed 200 documents on fact-checking and fake news published between 2014 and 2022 in scientific journals indexed in Scopus. This study has found that Europe and the United States are leading the way in the number of journals and authors publishing on the subject. The United States universities are the ones that host the most significant number of authors working on fact-checking, while the methodologies used, mostly ad hoc due to the novelty of the topic, allow to reflect on the need to promote work focused on the design, testing, and evaluation of prototypes or real experiences within the field. The most common contributions analyzed include typologies of false content and media manipulation mechanisms, models for evaluating and detecting disinformation, proposals to combat false content and strengthen verification mechanisms, studies on the role of social media in the spread of disinformation, efforts to develop media literacy among the public and journalists, case studies of fact-checkers, identification of factors that influence the belief in fake news, and analysis of the relationship between disinformation, verification, politics, and democracy. It is concluded that it is essential to develop research that connects the academy with the industry to raise awareness of the need to address these issues among the different actors in the media scenario.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article de revisió ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Journalism ; Misinformation ; Disinformation ; Media literacy ; Media trust
Publicado en:	Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, Vol. 14 Núm. 2 (2024) , e202427, ISSN 1986-3497

DOI: 10.30935/ojcmt/14455

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