Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Building on seven fundamental theoretical approaches to media influence and people’s behaviour toward information developed between the 1950s and 1980s—Two-Step Flow of Communication, Homophily, Encoding/Decoding, Uses and Gratifications, Arts of Poaching, Agenda-Setting, and Spiral of Silence—this paper puts into perspective the circulation of online content and the underlying mechanisms of disinformation in digital spheres. Our approach seeks to highlight the necessity, for theorists as well as practitioners, to consider fact-checking not only as a “false vs. true” verification mechanism, but as a communication process in and of itself.
Source: InMedia
DOI: 10.4000/145d4
Authors: Angeliki Monnier, Céline Ségur
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411422738