Social Media Issues and Fake News

Jakusné Harnos, Éva and Demeter, Márton and Bányász, Péter (2023) Social Media Issues and Fake News. In: Security, Resilience and Sustainability of the European Union. Ludovika Egyetemi Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 131-147. ISBN 9786156598042

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Abstract

Human communication is founded on complex rules of behaviour comprising language use, institutionalised news production and news consumption as well as social and international communication. Conventional norms are transferred to mediatised communication due to the slow adaptation of society to the technological changes accelerating since the early 20th century. As a result, individuals and groups are more susceptible to deception in an online environment where factors of interpersonal and social communication are blurred or faked without the targets noticing it. The World Wide Web, and especially social media, seem to image physical reality and society but, in fact, they are an edited imitation. The slow psychological and legal adjustment of society to technological and the resulting political disruption make our communities highly vulnerable to adverse external influence. The aim of this chapter is to increase resilience by highlighting three major areas in which accepted norms are most often challenged unnoticed: language use, journalism and content creation, and the alteration of perception of context and community.

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