Part 1. Understanding Fake News 1. The Path to Fake News, Edson C. Tandoc Jr.; 2. Conceptual Considerations, Seth Seet Part 2. The Impact of Fake News 3. How Singaporean Teens Assess the Credibility of News and News Sources, Qi Wei Ong & Emmanuel Pereira; 4. Singaporean Teens’ Awareness and Responses to Fake News, Isaiah Yip Jin Eu & Toh Jun Hao; 5. Parent-Child Relationships and their Attitudes toward Fake News, Vanessa Tan Yi Jun, Kym Campbell, & James Lee Chong Boi; 6. Millennials and Boomers: Generational Gaps and Acts of Authentication, Shi Nan Soh, James Chong Boi Lee, Pei Jun Quek, & Edson C. Tandoc Jr.; 7. Public Communication in the Age of Fake News, Shruti Malviya, Wong Pei Wen, Chen Lou, Hyunjin Kang, & Edson C. Tandoc Jr.; 8. Journalists and Fake News: The Experience of Filipino and Singaporean Journalists, Matthew Chew, Lydia Cheng, & Siti Rahil Part 3. Fake News Across Countries 9. Combating Misinformation During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from China, Rui Wang; 10. Polarization and Misinformation in Hong Kong, Stephanie Jean Tsang; 11. Fake News in Taiwan: How People Authenticate Fact from Fiction, Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen; 12. Perspectives from the Great Steppe: Kazakhstan in the Era of Fake News, April Manabat, Darya Zvonareva, & Zhuldyz Orazymbetova; 13. Fake News in India: Superstitions, Myths, and Xenophobia, Ritu Arya & Rubal Kanozia; 14. The War Against Health-Related Fake News in Thailand, Chanapa Noonark; 15. Fake News in Vietnam: The Bad and The Ugly, Van Vu Thanh; 16. Information Disorder and Fake News in Vietnam: The Endless Combat, Thong Huynh, Nguyet Nguyen, & Le Trieu; 17. An Outlier in Asia? Why Japanese People Don’t See Fake News as a Serious Threat, Kentaro Takeda; 18. Indonesia’s War on Fake News: Ignoring the Closer Enemies? Ika Idris & Ratna Ariyanti; 19. Race, Religion, Politics, and Cybertroopers: Fake News in Malaysia, Bahiyah Omar & Noor Zuleika Zulkipli; 20. Machinery of Disinformation in the 2022 Philippine Elections, Fatima Gaw; 21. The Weaponization of “Fake News” in South Korea, Sangwon Lee Part 4. Fighting Fakes 22. Disease or Dissent? What Anti-Fake News Laws in South and Southeast Asia Really Aim to Regulate, Peng Hwa Ang & Swati Maheshwari; 23. Fact-Checking in Asian Countries: Routines, Roles, and Rules, Darren Lim, Mak Weng Wai, Shawn Tan, & Edson Tandoc Jr.; 24. Debunking Online Falsehoods in India: Risks and Challenges, Jatin Gandhi; 25. Considerations for Crafting a Curriculum for Teenagers to Guard Against Online Falsehoods, Christina Ratnam-Lim, Seth Seet, & Edson C. Tandoc Jr. Part 5. Looking Forward and Future Challenges 26. Social Media and Deepfakes: Examining Public Engagement with Deepfakes, Saifuddin Ahmed; 27. Deepfake Identification: A Human-Oriented Perspective, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh & Chei Sian Lee; 28. The Path Forward, Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
Biography
Edson C. Tandoc Jr. is President’s Chair Professor of Communication Studies at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) in Singapore. He is also the founding Director of NTU’s Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet (IN-cube) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is the author of Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of Critical Incidents in Journalism: Pivotal Moments Reshaping Journalism around the World (Routledge, 2020). His studies have focused on the impact of journalistic roles, new technologies, and audience feedback on the news gatekeeping process. He has also looked at how readers make sense of critical incidents in journalism and take part in reconsidering journalistic norms; and how changing news consumption patterns facilitate the spread of fake news.
