The impact of “manipulated news” on student attitudes and perceptions and their participation in the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

• Main Authors: Wong, Chesca Ka Po, Zhu, Runping, Krever, Richard, Choi, Alfred Siu
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Sociology; News Framing; Animated News
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151951
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While the impact of fake news on viewers, particularly marginalized media users, has been a cause of growing concern, there has been little attention paid to the phenomenon of deliberately “manipulated” news published on social media by mainstream news publishers. Using qualitative content analysis...