Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to America
Marvin Kalb, an award-winning American journalist with more than six decades of experience both as a journalist and media observer, writes with passion about why we should fear for the future of American democracy because of the unrelenting attacks by the Trump administration on the press.
Media Coverage of Violence against Women in Guatemala
This book analyzes the scope and dynamics of violence against women in Guatemala as well as how it is represented in the print media. It reveals the ways in which these reports reproduce narratives of terror that conceal the gendered nature of violence against women and reproduce dichotomous gendered narratives of "good" and "bad" girls.
Ethical Journalism in a Populist Age weaves examples from journalism to demonstrate the role of fact-checking and responding to the pressure of patriotism in the coverage of global issues. Ward suggests that journalism needs a new path: democratically engaged journalism which will break free of current ethical practices in the world's media.
Ethical Journalism in a Populist Age weaves in examples from daily journalism to demonstrate the role of fact-checking and the pressure to be patriotic in the coverage of global issues as Ward suggests that journalism needs a new path: democratically engaged journalism, which will break free of current ethical practices in the world's media.
A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped "legacy media," killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital "Spider"? ......
Evolution of Journalism in Liberal, Deliberative, and Participatory De
This book explores the symbiotic relationship between various models of democracy and journalism, including liberal democracy and trustee journalism, deliberative democracy and public journalism, and participatory democracy and citizen journalism.
How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age
Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies explains how to identify deceptive information and seek out the most trustworthy information to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Barclay takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.
The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump
Award-winning journalist Nathan Bomey argues that Trump did not usher the post-truth era into being. He was its inevitable outcome. Bomey points to recent trends that have created the perfect seedbed for spin, distortion, deception, and bald-faced lies- shifting news habits, the rise of social media, the spread of entrenched ideologies, and the ......
A collection of essays exploring the role of textual studies in understanding and editing texts, and in understanding the historical developments and cultural differences in editorial and archival systems.