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The “Fake-News” Phenomenon and Transformation of Information Strategies in the Digital Society

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In this article, series of questions related to the conceptual basis for studying the characteristics of the emergence and evolution of the “fake news” phenomenon are proposed. An analysis is made of the transformation of information strategies and political communications in a digital society and the relationship of fake news with interpretations of social traumatic events are fixed.

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  1. Mediatization can be understood as modifying (distorting) the facts of reality and giving them mediated meanings that arise during fabrication of imaginary images in the process of collecting, processing (filtering) and transmitting information data [20, p. 84].

  2. A way to build a framework of communication, characterized by an underlined decorative effect and features of a mass entertainment illusion. The term was introduced by B.A. Ouspensky [25, p. 206].

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  1. St. Petersburg State University, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. V. Aleinikov, V. P. Miletskiy & A. I. Strebkov

  2. St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, 197022, St. Petersburg, Russia

    V. P. Miletskiy

  3. Russian Presidential Academy of Economy and Public Administration, 119571, Moscow, Russia

    N. P. Pimenov

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Aleinikov, A.V., Miletskiy, V.P., Pimenov, N.P. et al. The “Fake-News” Phenomenon and Transformation of Information Strategies in the Digital Society. Sci. Tech. Inf. Proc. 46, 117–122 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688219020126

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