News on Fake News: Logics of Media Discourses on Disinformation
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News on Fake News : Logics of Media Discourses on Disinformation. / Farkas, Johan.
In: Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2023, p. 1-21.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - News on Fake News
T2 - Logics of Media Discourses on Disinformation
AU - Farkas, Johan
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This article presents a qualitative study of media discourses around fake news, examining 288 news articles from two national elections in Denmark in 2019. It explores how news media construct fake news as a national security threat and how journalists articulate their own role in relation to this threat. The study draws on discourse theory and the concept of logics to critically map how particular meaning ascriptions and subject positions come to dominate over others, finding five logics undergirding media discourses: (1) a logic of anticipation; (2) a logic of exteriorisation; (3) a logic of technologisation; (4) a logic of securitisation; and (5) a logic of pre-legitimation. The article concludes that fake news is constructed as an ‘ultimate other’ in Danish media discourses, potentially contributing to blind spots in both public perception and political solutions. This resonates with previous studies from other geo-political contexts, calling for further cross-national research.
AB - This article presents a qualitative study of media discourses around fake news, examining 288 news articles from two national elections in Denmark in 2019. It explores how news media construct fake news as a national security threat and how journalists articulate their own role in relation to this threat. The study draws on discourse theory and the concept of logics to critically map how particular meaning ascriptions and subject positions come to dominate over others, finding five logics undergirding media discourses: (1) a logic of anticipation; (2) a logic of exteriorisation; (3) a logic of technologisation; (4) a logic of securitisation; and (5) a logic of pre-legitimation. The article concludes that fake news is constructed as an ‘ultimate other’ in Danish media discourses, potentially contributing to blind spots in both public perception and political solutions. This resonates with previous studies from other geo-political contexts, calling for further cross-national research.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Journalistik
KW - Fake news
KW - Misinformation
KW - Desinformation
KW - Valg
KW - Valgkamp
U2 - 10.1075/jlp.22020.far
DO - 10.1075/jlp.22020.far
M3 - Journal article
VL - 22
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - Journal of Language and Politics
JF - Journal of Language and Politics
SN - 1569-2159
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 352098475