Methodology Process

Process of Researching Digital Journalism

Hola! So for this project, I decided to work with Alex and a person from a previous project I worked with, Eddie. We decided to do digital journalism as it was the more fun option in my opinion and we decided to solely research fake news. We spent the first week brainstorming what we wanted to do for the research such as what we wanted to accomplish, and how successful it may be. We decided that we would run our own fake news platform, so we made a fake news website, Facebook and Twitter.

Here's our fake website:

Here's our Twitter:

Here's our Facebook:

We named our fake news platform 'The Vibe Network' and Eddie was the one who designed our logo for the social media sites:

Once we set up our social media sites, we decided to briefly research how fake news first started and figured out what footage we wanted to use to explain how it started and how its changed over the years in our video. The next step was to create some fake articles for our social media sites so we can try and get some traction. Our goal was to make stories that once you look at them, they grab your attention from the headline and that would you make you question the legitimacy of the story, and we wanted to make the articles short so that it isn't too time consuming of a read and when you have read it, you immediately realize that the article is fake:

Once we have designed the articles and posted them on our website, we wanted to spread these pieces of fake news on our social media sites to see more traction and gain more clicks. Once we posted them, we waited a good few days to see how many people had found our articles and to see how many views and likes we have gotten.

That's all for now, till the next post!