The Anatomy of Fake News

A Critical News Literacy Education

Nolan Higdon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2020
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-34786-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in media studies and history at California State University, East Bay. Higdon sits on the boards of the Action Coalition for Media Education and Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media and Education. He also cohosts the Along the Line podcast.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2020
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-34786-2 / 0520347862
ISBN-13	978-0-520-34786-1 / 9780520347861
Zustand	Neuware