Fact-checkers as a Professional Community of Experts
Research project – from idea to implementation
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https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.17.3(37).639Keywords:
fact-checking, discursive community, professionalisation, disinformation, methodological model, IDIAbstract
The following article presents an elaborate methodological concept that, in perspective, can serve as a model for analyzing professional communities (such as journalists, for example) understood primarily as symbolic/discursive communities. This concept was partially tested by the author in the course of her research on the community of fact-checkers (FC) in Poland. This study used the method of in-depth interviews. The article, in its main part, presents the research design and its implementation, as well as the preliminary generalized results of the study. Special attention is paid to the usefulness of the IDI method in the context of professional community research, and to the difficulties that may be associated with the use of this method.
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