1st Edition
Fake News Falsehood, Fabrication and Fantasy in Journalism
By Brian McNair
Copyright 2018
122 Pages
by
Routledge
122 Pages
by
Routledge
122 Pages
by
Routledge
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Fake News: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism examines the causes and consequences of the ‘fake news’ phenomenon now sweeping the world’s media and political debates. Drawing on three decades of research and writing on journalism and news media, the author engages with the fake news phenomenon in accessible, insightful language designed to bring clarity and context to a complex... Read more
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
Biography
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).
