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Trusting the news in a digital age : toward a "new" news literacy / Jeffrey Dvorkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2021Description: viii, 162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781119714293
  • 111971429X
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction to News Literacy -- hanging Definitions of News -- Why News Ethics? Why Now? -- Verification = Trust -- The Effect of Digital on Media Forms -- When the Audience is Biased -- When the News is Biased -- The Economics of Journalism in a Digital Age -- Framing and Deconstructing the News -- News Sources: Credible and Less Credible -- Trusting Journalism in a Time of "Fake News."
Summary: "This book focuses on news literacy to give students in journalism and media studies an ethical framework and the tools to assess the information they consume. It will raise awareness of how the news works as a business, as a service to citizens, and as a culture. Rather than cheerlead for media industries or promote digital technology (as do some existing titles), it encourages healthy skepticism as a starting point for analysis. Changes in communication have had enormous implications, and the book looks at the economic and technological conditions that facilitated these changes -- sometimes in a beneficial way, and often with disruptions to the way things used to be."-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 028.7 D988 Checked out 06/20/2024 33111010516017
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

TRUSTING THE NEWS in a Digital Age

How to use critical thinking to discern real news from fake news

Trusting the News in a Digital Age provides an ethical framework and the much-needed tools for assessing information produced in our digital age. With the tsunami of information on social media and other venues, many have come to distrust all forms of communication, including the news. This practical text offers guidance on how to use critical thinking, appropriate skepticism, and journalistic curiosity to handle this flow of undifferentiated information.

Designed to encourage critical thinking, each chapter introduces specific content, followed at the end of each section with an ethical dilemma. The ideas presented are based on the author's experiences as a teacher and public editor/ombudsman at NPR News. Trusting the News in a Digital Age prepares readers to deal with changes to news and information in the digital environment. It brings to light the fact that journalism is about treating the public as citizens first, and consumers of information second. This important text:

Reveals how to use critical thinking to handle the never-ending flow of information Contains ethical dilemmas to help sharpen critical thinking skills Explains how to verify sources and spot frauds Looks at the economic and technological conditions that facilitated changes in communication

Written for students of journalism and media studies, Trusting the News in the Digital Age offers guidance on how to hone critical thinking skills needed to discern fact from fiction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to News Literacy -- hanging Definitions of News -- Why News Ethics? Why Now? -- Verification = Trust -- The Effect of Digital on Media Forms -- When the Audience is Biased -- When the News is Biased -- The Economics of Journalism in a Digital Age -- Framing and Deconstructing the News -- News Sources: Credible and Less Credible -- Trusting Journalism in a Time of "Fake News."

"This book focuses on news literacy to give students in journalism and media studies an ethical framework and the tools to assess the information they consume. It will raise awareness of how the news works as a business, as a service to citizens, and as a culture. Rather than cheerlead for media industries or promote digital technology (as do some existing titles), it encourages healthy skepticism as a starting point for analysis. Changes in communication have had enormous implications, and the book looks at the economic and technological conditions that facilitated these changes -- sometimes in a beneficial way, and often with disruptions to the way things used to be."-- Provided by publisher.

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