Publication: Tidak pasti, jangan kongsi!! Secret Sauce for Success in Media Literacy Is Crucial in Battling Fake News
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Date
2022
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Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
Abstract
Today, social media are frequently associated with the propagation of defamation, which is believed to impact society negatively. Most of this fake news originates via Whatsapp, Twitter, and Telegram applications, indicating that this social media facility that facilitates the transmission of fake news continues to exist.This study aims to explore and understand the style of news writing in preventing fake news on digital media platform devoted to news literacy from the perspective of a media practitioner. The debate will focus mostly about fake news and the appropriate journalistic methodology for reporting on digital news sites. Identifying the factors that influence the evolution of the style of journalism on digital media is a further crucial endeavour. The objectives of the study were achieved through the use of semi-structured qualitative interviews. In-depth interviews were conducted with ten media professionals until the data set was saturated. According to the findings of the study, data journalism is the news writings styles that can aid in the prevention of “fake news” in digital media. In addition, research demonstrates that data journalism is characterised by data capture, graphics, and visualisation. This study seeks to contribute to the existing body of knowledge by demonstrating how the expansion of journalistic style on online news websites has made new journalistic practises relevant.
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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022): Al-I'lam: Journal of Contemporary Islamic Communication and Media
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News writing, Fake news, Data Journalism, News literacy, New media, Digital journalism
Citation
Mior Kamarulbaid, D. A., Mohd Sofian, M. R. ., Abu Hasan, N. N. ., Wan Abas, W. A., & Md. Ithnan, I. H. (2022). Tidak pasti, jangan kongsi!! Secret Sauce for Success in Media Literacy Is Crucial in Battling Fake News. Al-i’lam - Journal of Contemporary Islamic Communication and Media, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.33102/jcicom.vol2no1.44