Comparative study fake news coverage with the emphasis of culture field in 8 Iranian news resources

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
mahboobeh azarkheil 1
Akbar Nasrollahi 2
nasim majidi 3
1 Communication and Culture group, Central Tehran branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Communication and Culture group, Central Tehran branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran ,Author, Akbar
3 Communication and Culture group, Central Tehran branch, Islamic Azad University.
10.22034/jcsc.2021.115353.2017
Abstract
This study compares the structure of fake news coverage with an emphasis on the cultural domain in the eight media and compares the structure and the manner of covering the fake news with an emphasis on the cultural domain in the eight media. This research is a descriptive-analytic one with content analysis method and its data in library method and study of existing documents, as well as content analysis of Fars news agency sites, Young Journalists Club, Tabnak news sites. Iran Era News Database, News Telegram Channels. the newsroom is Hamshahri newspapers and Jam Jam. The findings of the study show that among the selected news sources of the study, the cinema component with the average of 3.69 had the highest amount of fake news coverage. Also, the radio and television components averaged 2.73 and the media averaged 3.21 the most fake news coverage used in the selected news sources. books and reading have also been used as the lowest news coverage of fake news, with an average of 0.27

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