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.

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Part 1: Understanding Fake News
1. The Path to Fake News
2. Conceptual Considerations
Part 2: The Impact of Fake News
3. How Singaporean Teens Assess the Credibility of News and News Sources
4. Singaporean Teens' Awareness and Responses to Fake News
5. Parent-Child Relationships and Fake News
6. Millennials and Boomers: Generational Gaps and Acts of Authentication
7. Public Communication in the Age of Fake News
8. Journalists and Fake News: The Experience of Filipino and Singaporean
Journalists
Part 3: Fake News Across Countries
9. Combating Misinformation During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from
China
10. Polarization and Misinformation in Hong Kong
11. Fake News in Taiwan: How People Authenticate Fact from Fiction
12. Perspectives from the Great Steppe: Kazakhstan in the Era of Fake News
13. Fake News in India: Superstitions, Myths, and Xenophobia
14. The War Against Health-Related Fake News in Thailand
15. Fake News in Vietnam: The Bad and The Ugly
16. Information Disorder and Fake News in Vietnam: The Endless Combat
17. An Outlier in Asia? Why Japanese People Don't See Fake News as a
Serious Threat
18. Indonesia's War on Fake News: Ignoring the Closer Enemies?
19. Race, Religion, Politics, and Cybertroopers: Fake News in Malaysia
20. Machinery of Disinformation in the 2022 Philippine Elections
21. The Weaponization of "Fake News" in South Korea
Part 4: Fighting Fakes
22. Disease or Dissent? What Anti-Fake News Laws in South and Southeast
Asia Really Aim to Regulate
23. Fact-Checking in Asian Countries: Routines, Roles, and Rules
24. Debunking Online Falsehoods in India: Risks and Challenges
25. Considerations for Crafting a Curriculum for Teenagers to Guard Against
Online Falsehoods
Part 5: Looking Forward and Future Challenges
26. Social Media and Deepfakes: Examining Public Engagement with Deepfakes
27. Deepfake Identification: A Human-Oriented Perspective
28. The Path Forward
Index

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