Author: Media Watch

The Salience of Fakeness: Experimental Evidence on Readers’ Distinction between Mainstream Media Content and Altered News Stories

© Media Watch 11 (3) 386-400, 2020ISSN 0976-0911 | e-ISSN 2249-8818DOI: 10.15655/mw/2020/v11i3/202927 The Salience of Fakeness: Experimental Evidence on Readers’ Distinction between Mainstream Media Content and Altered News Stories Theodora A. Maniou, Venetia Papa, and Philemon BantimaroudisUniversity of Cyprus, Cyprus Abstract This experiment was designed to explore people’s critical, differentiating capacity between actual news and content that looks […]

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Malaysian Youth, Social Media Following, and Natural Disasters: What Matters Most to Them?

© Media Watch 10 (3) 508-521, 2019 ISSN 0976-0911 E-ISSN 2249-8818 DOI: 10.15655/mw/2019/v10i3/49690 Malaysian Youth, Social Media Following, and Natural Disasters: What Matters Most to Them? Nurzali Ismail, Jamilah Ahmad, Shuhaida Md. Noor, & Jayslyn Saw Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Abstract This study attempted to understand youth’s social media following during natural disasters. It investigated […]

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