Investigating Disinformation in Middle East Mainstream News – Operationalization, Detection, and Implication

This paper develops some discursive resources and models to analyze how and why disinformation permeates mainstream media. It draws on certain linguistic strategies and propaganda models helpful to unravel disinformation in mainstream media coverage, with focus placed on two main Arabic speaking 24/...

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Autor principal:	Barkho Leon
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	middle east disinformation discursive patterns news discourse Bibliography. Library science. Information resources Z
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9aa4209ba7274a729db7ae4fc4471aad2021-12-05T14:11:00ZInvestigating Disinformation in Middle East Mainstream News – Operationalization, Detection, and Implication2451-178110.1515/opis-2020-0124https://doaj.org/article/9aa4209ba7274a729db7ae4fc4471aad2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0124https://doaj.org/toc/2451-1781This paper develops some discursive resources and models to analyze how and why disinformation permeates mainstream media. It draws on certain linguistic strategies and propaganda models helpful to unravel disinformation in mainstream media coverage, with focus placed on two main Arabic speaking 24/7 news channels in the Middle East. These strategies and models are used to conduct exploratory critical analyses of data drawn from the online news websites of the two news outlets. The paper presents the trends characterizing disinformation in the Middle East, but more importantly the discursive and social patterns and practices the media employ when publishing news intended to discredit and harm rather than inform. The study’s contribution is twofold: First, it provides a discursive framework for the analysis of disinformation in traditional news outlets. Second, it provides an analytical framework to investigate how disinformation pervades mainstream media. The study’s data and analysis support the lines of research on how patriotic ethics guide coverage and how the selection of discursive patterns responds to interests of hegemonic powers with a say in media organizations’ affairs.Barkho LeonDe Gruyterarticlemiddle eastdisinformationdiscursive patternsnews discourseBibliography. Library science. Information resourcesZENOpen Information Science, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 250-262 (2021)
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description	This paper develops some discursive resources and models to analyze how and why disinformation permeates mainstream media. It draws on certain linguistic strategies and propaganda models helpful to unravel disinformation in mainstream media coverage, with focus placed on two main Arabic speaking 24/7 news channels in the Middle East. These strategies and models are used to conduct exploratory critical analyses of data drawn from the online news websites of the two news outlets. The paper presents the trends characterizing disinformation in the Middle East, but more importantly the discursive and social patterns and practices the media employ when publishing news intended to discredit and harm rather than inform. The study’s contribution is twofold: First, it provides a discursive framework for the analysis of disinformation in traditional news outlets. Second, it provides an analytical framework to investigate how disinformation pervades mainstream media. The study’s data and analysis support the lines of research on how patriotic ethics guide coverage and how the selection of discursive patterns responds to interests of hegemonic powers with a say in media organizations’ affairs.
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title	Investigating Disinformation in Middle East Mainstream News – Operationalization, Detection, and Implication
title_short	Investigating Disinformation in Middle East Mainstream News – Operationalization, Detection, and Implication
title_full	Investigating Disinformation in Middle East Mainstream News – Operationalization, Detection, and Implication
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Investigating Disinformation in Middle East Mainstream News – Operationalization, Detection, and Implication

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