Fact-checking. From term and concept to word usage
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-6-72-78
Abstract
With modern realities in the development of new media and the information and communication technologies (ICT), the skills of checking information for the reliability of sources – fact-checking (or fact-check) is extremely important. The article briefly considers the term fact-checking and gives the definitions and also related concepts. The author’s understanding of approaches to and tools of the fact-checking in the context of the concept “Source Studies 2.0” is offered. English dictionary definitions are analyzed and translated into Russian, an overview of the Russian-language interpretations is given, as well as links to key publications on the topic.
About the Author
M. S. Kornev
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maxim S. Kornev
bld. 6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, Russia, 125993
References
1. Gorokhovsky, A. (2017), Factcheking kak trend jurnalistskih rassledovanij [Factchecking as a trend of journalistic investigations. Practice guide], Almaty, Kazakhstan, [Online], available at: https://factcheck.kz/glavnoe-en/4956/ (Accessed 19 April 2019).
2. Kuz’min, V.A. (2013), Media- i informatsionnaya gramotnost’ v obschestvah znanya [Media and information literacy in knowledge societies], ICBS, Moscow, Russia, [Online], available at: http://www.ifapcom.ru/files/News/Images/2013/mil_int_ rus.pdf (Accessed 19 April 2019).
3. Rusina, Y.A. (2015), Metodologiya istochnikovedenya [Methodology of source study], Izdatel’stvo Ural’skogo universiteta, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
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Kornev M.S. Fact-checking. From term and concept to word usage. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2020;(6):72-78. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2020-6-72-78
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