Fake News as Discursive Integration: An Analysis of Sites That Publish False, Misleading, Hyperpartisan and Sensational Information

@article{Mouro2019FakeNA,
  title={Fake News as Discursive Integration: An Analysis of Sites That Publish False, Misleading, Hyperpartisan and Sensational Information},
  author={Rachel R. Mour{\~a}o and Craig T. Robertson},
  journal={Journalism Studies},
  year={2019},
  volume={20},
  pages={2077 - 2095}
}
ABSTRACT After the 2016 US presidential election, the concept of fake news captured popular attention, but conversations lacked a clear conceptualization and used the label in elastic ways to describe various distinct phenomena. In this paper, we analyze fake news as genre blending, combining elements of traditional news with features that are exogenous to normative professional journalism: misinformation, sensationalism, clickbait, and bias. Through a content analysis of stories published by… 
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