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Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media (Paperback)
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Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media (Paperback)
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Truth qualities of journalism are under intense scrutiny in today's
world. Journalistic scandals have eroded public confidence in
mainstream media while pioneering news media compete to satisfy the
public's appetite for news. Still worse is the specter of "fake
news" that looms over media and political systems that underpin
everything from social stability to global governance. This volume
aims to illuminate the contentious media landscape to help
journalism students, scholars, and professionals understand
contemporary conditions and arm them to deal with a spectrum of new
developments ranging from technology and politics to best
practices. Fake news is among the greatest of these concerns, and
can encompass everything from sarcastic or ironic humor to
bot-generated, made-up stories. It can also include the pernicious
transmission of selected, biased facts, the use of incomplete or
misleadingly selective framing of stories, and photographs that
editorially convey certain characteristics. This edited volume
contextualizes the current "fake news problem." Yet it also offers
a larger perspective on what seems to be uniquely modern,
computer-driven problems. We must remember that we have lived with
the problem of people having to identify, characterize, and
communicate the truth about the world around them for millennia.
Rather than identify a single culprit for disseminating
misinformation, this volume examines how news is perceived and
identified, how news is presented to the public, and how the public
responds to news. It considers social media's effect on the craft
of journalism, as well as the growing role of algorithms, big data,
and automatic content-production regimes. As an edited collection,
this volume gathers leading scholars in the fields of journalism
and communication studies, philosophy, and the social sciences to
address critical questions of how we should understand journalism's
changing landscape as it relates to fundamental questions about the
role of truth and information in society.
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