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 […]