The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

Following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories (“fake news”), circulated largely through social media. We discuss the economics of fake news and present new data on its consumption prior to the election. Drawing on web browsing data, archives of fact-checking websites, and results from a new online survey, we find: (i) social media was an important but not dominant source of election news, with 14 percent of Americans calling social media their “most important” source; (ii) of the known false news stories that appeared in the three months before the election, those favoring Trump were shared a total of 30 million times on Facebook, while those favoring Clinton were shared 8 million times; (iii) the average American adult saw on the order of one or perhaps several fake news stories in the months around the election, with just over half of those who recalled seeing them believing them; and (iv) people are much more likely to believe stories that favor their preferred candidate, especially if they have ideologically segregated social media networks.

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Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election

The theory of affordances

After virtue, a study in moral theory

Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time

Climate Change Communication on Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo, and Other Social Media Platforms

Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time critically examines how journalists use web analytics in their work and the implications of that use. 
Now that web analytics has become deeply embedded in newsrooms, its impact on journalism is even more potent. Documenting the different ways web analytics has disrupted traditional journalism, the book provides a timely review of what we know so far about the place of web analytics in reporting, and maps a future research agenda. It conceptualizes web analytics as an object of journalism where audiences, businesses, technologists, and journalists confront one another, negotiating the contours of digital journalism in the process.
Including newly developed theoretical frameworks as well as case studies and empirical projects, the book is ideal for journalism students, researchers, and professional journalists.

Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time

The current study experimentally tested stereotypes and credibility of messages associated with athletes. Participants were asked to rate photos of Black and White baseball players based on stereotypes identified in previous literature. They were then given an anonymous paragraph from a newspaper that featured either a stereotype consistent or inconsistent message and asked to rate the author’s credibility. Black players were rated significantly higher in physical strength and natural ability, which is consistent with previous literature. However, inconsistent with previous literature, White players were not rated significantly higher in intelligence and leadership. Despite these results, when measuring credibility, this study found White-consistent stereotypes to be credible, whereas Black-consistent ones were not. These results are interpreted in light of Devine’s model of stereotype processing and in-group, out-group bias.

https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=cmm_fac_pub

A Black and White Game: Racial Stereotypes in Baseball

The concept of sustainability has gained in importance since the United Nations made it the main pillar for development in 1992. But while areas like climate change and energy consumption are well ...

#sustainablefashion – A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Fashion Discourse on Twitter

In an experiment comparing traditional news reporting to citizen blogs, university students rated traditional journalism as more credible than citizen journalism. Also, participants assessed straig...

Edson C. Tandoc

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Climate Change Communication on Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo, and Other Social Media Platforms

Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time

A Black and White Game: Racial Stereotypes in Baseball

#sustainablefashion – A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Fashion Discourse on Twitter

Traditional Reporting More Credible than Citizen News