Fake News : Falsehood, Fabrication and Fantasy in Journalism

ISBN-13: 9781138306790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 128 str.

Brian McNair

Opis

Fake News: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism presents an accessible exploration of fakery and deception in news and journalism, giving readers valuable historical context in considering the development of falsification in the news

Spis treści

List of Figures, Foreword, 1. #FakeNews 2. Faking it in journalism: not really new, not exactly news 3. The Decline of Trust in Journalism – post-truth, post-factuality and the digisphere 4. Fakers, Makers, Sharers 5. Fake news and democratic political culture: the challenges, and how to address them 6. Afterword, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Brian McNair is Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication at Queensland University of Technology. He is the author of fifteen books, including Communication and Political Crisis (2016), Cultural Chaos (2006), Journalists in Film (2010) and Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia (with Flew et al., 2017).