{"id":6096,"date":"2017-05-08T23:40:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T03:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.prattsils.org\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2018-04-03T22:38:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T22:38:34","slug":"fake-news-rhetorical-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2017\/fake-news-rhetorical-analysis","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fake News&#8221;: A Rhetorical Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presented by\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juho E. Hakokongas, Heather V. Hill, Kristen Iemma, Nanyamkah Mars, Kieran L. Raines, Chris Alen Sula, D. Andrea Thompson, and Alexander Whelan<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This project is an analysis of the term &#8220;fake news&#8221; as a rhetorical device in the four-month period following the 2016 Presidential Election. We examine the term across a variety of sources, from traditional news outlets to more recent news websites and social media.<\/p>\n<p>This project analyzes the circulation of the term \u201cfake news\u201d as a rhetorical device, used to make political assertions about the truth of various stories and sources. These sources range from longstanding and popular news outlets to more recent news websites and social media. Across these sources, we examine the use and users of the term \u201cfake news\u201d, its frequency of use, and the sources and topics that are described as \u201cfake news\u201d.\u00a0We analyze\u00a0this discourse in terms of\u00a0five periods\u00a0during\u00a0the\u00a0four months following the 2016 Presidential Election, over\u00a0which the use\u00a0of\u00a0\u201cfake news\u201d changes, and we reflect on the role of\u00a0media literacy regarding\u00a0this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Slides available at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/InfoShow17-Fake-News\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/InfoShow17-Fake-News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project analyzes the circulation of the term \u201cfake news\u201d as a rhetorical device, used to make political assertions about the truth of various stories and sources. These sources range from longstanding and popular news outlets to more recent news websites and social media. Across these sources, we examine the use and users of the term \u201cfake news\u201d, its frequency of use, and the sources and topics that are described as \u201cfake news\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":6488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[35,7,131],"coauthors":[278],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-229","tag-digital-humanities","tag-information-visualization","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}