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9780190900267

Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media

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  • ISBN13:

    9780190900267

  • ISBN10:

    0190900261

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2019-08-06
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


James E. Katz is Feld Professor of Emerging Media at Boston University's College of Communication, where he directs its Division of Emerging Media Studies. He has been awarded a Distinguished Fulbright Chair to Italy, fellowships at Princeton, Harvard, and MIT, and the Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association. Dr. Katz is an elected fellow of the International Communication Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Kate K. Mays is completing her PhD in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University's College of Communication and is a Graduate Student Fellow for computational and data-driven research at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University. She has presented her research findings at a variety of international conferences and in several journals. After graduating from Georgetown University, she worked in the publishing industry before coming to Boston University for advanced studies.

Table of Contents


List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction
James E. Katz and Kate K. Mays

Democracy, News, & Society

Chapter 2. Belgium Invades Germany: Can Facts Survive Politics?
Michael Schudson

Spotlight: Pierre Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field
David L. Swartz

Chapter 3. From information availability to factual accountability: Reconsidering how truth matters for politicians, publics, and the news media
Lucas Graves and Chris Wells

Chapter 4. Fake News: A New Obsession with an Old Phenomenon?
Nicole Krause, Christopher D. Wirz, Dietram A. Scheufele, Michael Xenos

Pillars of Truth in Journalism

Spotlight: Sophisticated Modernism & Truth
Edward Schiappa

Chapter 5. "The True" in Journalism
Juliet Floyd

Chapter 6. Truth in Journalism
Zeynep Soysal

Craft of Journalism and Truth

Chapter 7. Canards, fausses nouvelles, paranoid style. Classic authors for an emerging phenomenon
Peppino Ortoleva

Chapter 8. Scoop: The Challenge of Foreign Correspondence
John Maxwell Hamilton and Heidi Tworek

Chapter 9. Searching for Truth in Fragmented Spaces: Chat Apps and Verification in News Production
Colin Agur and Valerie Belair-Gagnon

Chapter 10. The use and verification of online sources in the news production process.
Sophie Lecheler, Sanne Kruikemeier, Yael de Haan

Chapter 11. Technological Affordances can Promote Misinformation: What Journalists Should Watch Out for When Relying on Online Tools and Social Media
Maria D. Molina and S. Shyam Sundar

Reception & Perception

Chapter 12. Fake News Finds an Audience
Erik P. Bucy and John E. Newhagen

Chapter 13. Truth at large: When social media investigations get it wrong
Edson C. Tandoc Jr.

Chapter 14. Emotional Characteristics of Social Media and Political Misperceptions
Brian E. Weeks and R. Kelly Garrett

Chapter 15. Conclusion
Kate K. Mays and James E. Katz

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