Name of Authors – Sudip Paul, Het Gandhi, Harshavardhan Kamble, Ashish Sharma.
Introduction:
In the current scenario where we are almost dependent on different social or digital medium for news, we commonly come across news which are incorrect or misleading but we at times believe them due to lack of awareness.
Objective:
To determine whether the youth of today is aware of fake news and their response to it.
Data Collection:
The following 5 Qs. were framed on a Likert scale on a scale of 1-5 where 1 is for Strongly Disagree and 5 is for Strongly Agree
Questions are as follows:
1. I experienced, news body doesn’t match headlines sometimes.
2. I experienced that media publish unverified information to increase readability.
3. I experienced that media presents news in a misleading way.
4. I experienced, some news are meant to harm certain entities.
5. I experienced fake news, so it should be compared & verified.
Data Analysis:
After receiving responses, we were able to come up with following analysis:
QUESTION NO ARITHMATIC MEAN STANDARD ERROR STANDARD DEVIATION Z VALUE (95.0%)
Q1 3.537815126 0.089141178 0.972415444 0.1765238
Q2 3.840336134 0.076401768 0.833444896 0.151296302
Q3 3.672268908 0.086150519 0.939791211 0.170601482
Q4 3.764705882 0.080683841 0.880156788 0.15977597
Q5 4.025210084 0.09874745 1.077207508 0.195546836
Conclusion:
It can be concluded that:
1. Sometimes news body doesn’t match.
2. Media publish unverified information to increase readability.
3. Media presents news in a misleading way.
4. Some news is meant to harm certain entities.
5. Fake news should be compared & verified.
REPORT BY
Sudip Paul – OSCM
Het Gandhi – OSCM
Harshavardhan Kamble – OSCM
Ashish Sharma – IFM