Detecting Deception: Tools to Fight Fake News - Hardcover

Amanda Sturgill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1538141027 ISBN 13: 9781538141021

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020

Synopsis

Teaching fact checking and verification is an essential part of journalism education. When a confusing media environment includes statements like “Truth is not truth” and “The president offered alternative facts,” students need to go beyond traditional reporting standards. They need to be trained to consider the presentation of reality in deciding if a statement is misleading or patently false. Detecting Deception applies the concepts of logical argumentation to supplement the verification techniques that are the stock and trade of any media professional.

Pithy and practical, Amanda Sturgill draws from present day news examples to help students recognize the most common bad arguments people make. Detecting Deception is an essential tool for training future journalists to build stories that recognize faulty arguments and hold their subjects to a higher standard.

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About the Author

Amanda Sturgill is a professor at Elon University, where she teaches courses in journalism, media analytics, and digital strategy. She has built a 20-plus year career studying the ways people communicate online, including how breaking news is covered on Twitter, how people learn from digital media, how media work and don’t work for poor people and those with disabilities, and how people form online communities around their interests. Her research and teaching have been featured on CBC Radio, KABC Radio, and in The Washington Post.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538141027
• ISBN 13: 9781538141021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160