“Slowly, incest is being legalized throughout Europe” : detecting human rights vulnerabilities in fake news using critical discourse analysis

dc.contributor.advisor Gardikiotis, Antonis
dc.contributor.author Amanatullah, Samy
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-02T16:01:50Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-02T16:01:50Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.description Second semester University: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Awarded thesis 2017/2018 en_US
dc.description.abstract Liberal democracy has struggled to respond to so-called fake news. The term is used to describe content and discredit the media, and it is increasingly seen as the tool of illiberal actors. This research examines how fake news targets human rights through a critical discourse analysis of demonstrably false headlines in four environments: the United States, Italy, Greece, and Ukraine. This research defines fake news as disinformation, or disingenuous content that is disseminated to persuade as an agenda. It then examines relevant social theories, enabling features, and motivated actors to suggest that disinformation functions through repetition and peripheral processing to exploit existing skepticism and social tensions in the neo-liberal system. This study collects headlines and headline-adjacent content from fact-checking sites in four countries, codes them according to sociological implications, and analyses them through social discourse theory. It finds that disinformation targets social movements and multi-culturalism by discrediting actors and presenting the human rights regime as disingenuous and oppressive. Disinformation frames illiberal behavior as positive transformative action and co-opts the rhetoric of the human rights regime to further arguments rooted in new racism. en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/20.500.11825/807
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.25330/1833
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.hasversion Global Campus Europe-EMA awarded thesis 2016/2017: https://doi.org/20.500.11825/1012
dc.relation.ispartofseries Global Campus Europe (EMA) theses 2017/2018;
dc.subject media en_US
dc.subject information en_US
dc.subject freedom of the press en_US
dc.subject information society en_US
dc.subject propaganda en_US
dc.subject public opinion en_US
dc.subject press and politics en_US
dc.subject social networks en_US
dc.title “Slowly, incest is being legalized throughout Europe” : detecting human rights vulnerabilities in fake news using critical discourse analysis en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
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