Patkarenje
Fabricating Canards
Author(s): Igor ČatićSubject(s): Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, South Slavic Languages, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: Internet age; news in real time; large number of potential readers; intentionally false; fabricating canards;
Summary/Abstract: The Internet age has made it possible to pass some news in real time, simultaneously to a large number of potential readers. Some pieces of news are intentionally false. The entire phenomenon can be named with the untranslatable English word hoax. Patkarenje (fabricating canards) is a special form of hoax in which erroneous pieces of news are deliberately made up and launched to disturb the reading public. This is not a new phenomenon; the term novinarska patka (canard) has already been in use for a long time. However, the phenomenon had no name. It is now called patkarenje (fabricating canards) and the activity word is patkariti (to launch canards)
Journal: Jezik: časopis za kulturu hrvatskoga književnog jezika
- Issue Year: 61/2014
- Issue No: 4-5
- Page Range: 152-159
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Croatian