Autori: Serafini, Luca, Bomba, Mauro, Zagni, Giovanni
Titolo: Deciding what’s fact-checking. Epistemology, practices, and professional boundaries in a hybrid field
Periodico: Problemi dell'informazione
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 85 - Pagina finale: 111

This article analyses the structuring process of a strongly «hybrid» professional field – that of fact-checking – where journalists and non-journalists coexist, and which is still in the process of defining its boundaries. By means of an analysis of methodological sections and a sample of articles from 21 projects from the worlds of journalism, academia and civil society, this study investigates the epistemological principles, values, and practices upon which fact-checking is attempting to institutionalise itself as a professional field with shared standards. The results show a common reference to a «proto-journalistic», normative and positivist epistemology, but professional practices that are much more open to an interpretative and dynamic conception of information.




SICI: 0390-5195(2025)1<85:DWFEPA>2.0.ZU;2-I
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1445/117061
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