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Oxford Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media 2019 Edition by James E. Katz, Kate K. Mays
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. _x000D__x000D_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. _x000D__x000D_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,_x000D_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._x000D__x000D_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_x000D_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._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
List of Contributors_x000D_
Acknowledgements_x000D_
Preface_x000D_
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Chapter 1. Introduction_x000D_
James E. Katz and Kate K. Mays_x000D_
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Democracy, News, & Society_x000D_
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Chapter 2. Belgium Invades Germany: Can Facts Survive Politics?_x000D_
Michael Schudson_x000D_
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Spotlight: Pierre Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field _x000D_
David L. Swartz_x000D_
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Chapter 3. From information availability to factual accountability: Reconsidering how truth matters for politicians, publics, and the news media_x000D_
Lucas Graves and Chris Wells_x000D_
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Chapter 4. Fake News: A New Obsession with an Old Phenomenon?_x000D_
Nicole Krause, Christopher D. Wirz, Dietram A. Scheufele, Michael Xenos _x000D_
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Pillars of Truth in Journalism_x000D_
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Spotlight: Sophisticated Modernism & Truth_x000D_
Edward Schiappa_x000D_
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Chapter 5. "The True" in Journalism_x000D_
Juliet Floyd_x000D_
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Chapter 6. Truth in Journalism_x000D_
Zeynep Soysal_x000D_
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Craft of Journalism and Truth_x000D_
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Chapter 7. Canards, fausses nouvelles, paranoid style. Classic authors for an emerging phenomenon_x000D_
Peppino Ortoleva_x000D_
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Chapter 8. Scoop: The Challenge of Foreign Correspondence_x000D_
John Maxwell Hamilton and Heidi Tworek_x000D_
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Chapter 9. Searching for Truth in Fragmented Spaces: Chat Apps and Verification in News Production_x000D_
Colin Agur and Valerie Belair-Gagnon_x000D_
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Chapter 10. The use and verification of online sources in the news production process._x000D_
Sophie Lecheler, Sanne Kruikemeier, Yael de Haan_x000D_
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Chapter 11. Technological Affordances can Promote Misinformation: What Journalists Should Watch Out for When Relying on Online Tools and Social Media_x000D_
Maria D. Molina and S. Shyam Sundar_x000D_
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Reception & Perception_x000D_
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Chapter 12. Fake News Finds an Audience_x000D_
Erik P. Bucy and John E. Newhagen_x000D_
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Chapter 13. Truth at large: When social media investigations get it wrong_x000D_
Edson C. Tandoc Jr._x000D_
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Chapter 14. Emotional Characteristics of Social Media and Political Misperceptions_x000D_
Brian E. Weeks and R. Kelly Garrett_x000D_
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Chapter 15. Conclusion_x000D_
Kate K. Mays and James E. Katz_x000D_