The Anatomy of Fake News (eBook)

A Critical News Literacy Education

Nolan Higdon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
248 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97584-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake news have fostered calls for government regulation and industry intervention to mitigate the influence of false content. These proposals are hindered by a lack of consensus concerning the definition of fake news or its origins. Media scholar Nolan Higdon contends that expanded access to critical media literacy education, grounded in a comprehensive history of fake news, is a more promising solution to these issues. The Anatomy of Fake News offers the first historical examination of fake news that takes as its goal the effective teaching of critical news literacy in the United States. Higdon employs a critical-historical media ecosystems approach to identify the producers, themes, purposes, and influences of fake news. The findings are then incorporated into an invaluable fake news detection kit. This much-needed resource provides a rich history and a promising set of pedagogical strategies for mitigating the pernicious influence of fake news.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction 

1 The Fourth Estate: Democracy and the Press
2 The Faux Estate: A Brief History of Fake News in America
3 Satirical News and Political Party Propaganda Apparatuses
4 The Roots of State-Sponsored Propaganda
5 Fake News and the Internet Economy
6 Fighting Fake News: Solutions and Discontent 
7 The Fake News Detection Kit: The Ten-Point Process to Save Our Democracy 

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: American Culture • american news • American Society • critical media literacy education • Democracy • Education • Fake News • fake news detection kit • false content • fourth estate • government regulation • industry intervention • influences of fake news • Internet • Journalism • media ecosystems • Media Studies • News • news literacy • news reporting • Pedagogy • Political Propaganda • presidential elections • Presidents • Press • producers of fake news • purposes of fake news • satirical news • Teaching • themes of fake news • United States of America
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97584-7 / 0520975847
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97584-2 / 9780520975842