Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

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

This 1966 paperback edition of a publication which first appeared in 1963 has by now been widely reviewed as a worthy contribution to the sociological study of deviant behavior. Its current appearance as a paperback is a testimonial both to the quality of the work and to the prominence of deviant behavior in this generation. In general the author places deviance in perspective, identifies types of deviant behavior, considers the role of rule makers and enforcers, and some of the problems in studying deviance. In addition, he develops a sequential model of deviance relying on the concept of career, a concept originally developed in studies of occupations. In his study of a particular kind of deviance, the use of marihuana, the author posits and tests systematically an hypothesis about the genesis of marihuana use for pleasure. The hypothesis traces the sequence of changes in individual attitude

Outsiders Studies in the Sociology of Deviance.

Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that ‘fake news’ alludes to two dimensions of political communication: the fake news genre (i.e. the deliberate creation of pseudojournalistic di...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23808985.2019.1602782

Fake news as a two-dimensional phenomenon: a framework and research agenda

Making the Connections

The current debate on fake-news is heavily focused on American and British post-truth politics and the tactical use of ‘alternative facts’. However, the concerns about the impact of fake news on jo...

Contextualizing Fake News in Post-truth Era: Journalism Education in India

The media ecosystem of the post-truth era is shaped by several unprecedented elements—the pitfalls of the personalized/networked media, the cherry picking tendencies of news producers in an attenti...

Journalism Education in Post-Truth Era: Pedagogical Approaches Based on Indian Journalism Students’ Perception of Fake News:

Data journalism is emerging as a new subspecialty in Indian journalism. Indian data journalism practice is in nascent stage and newsrooms have lately started recognizing it as a new practice. There were specific issues and challenges faced by journalists in western news rooms as they adopted the practice. To generate a comparative perspective, the study carried out semi-structured interviews with Indian data journalists about their perceptions on the challenges of practicing data journalism. The results show that there are external and internal bottlenecks in practicing data journalism in India. While irregular data releases, use of unfriendly formats by governmental authorities is a major concern; reluctance of media organizations to invest in data teams is identified as an internal challenge. Indian data journalists are skeptical about the audience’s participatory potential, which has restricted them from relying on practices like crowd-sourcing.

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“We need to find a revenue model”: Data journalists’ perceptions on the challenges of practicing data journalism in India

Dharamshala is home to the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. Its small-town journalism landscape is unique due to specific forms of community journalism practice adopted by Indian and Tibetan journalist...

Encroachers and victims: Framing of community dynamics by small-town journalists in Dharamshala, India:

The success of modern corporations depends on their perception in the minds of the key stakeholders. A corporation communicates with its stakeholders in multifarious, tangible, and intangible ways. This has compelled brand managers to consider each and every aspect of a corporation’s functioning as an opportunity for communicating the brand. The phenomenon of communicative expansion and strategic orientation of communication processes have made the corporations look at everything from marketing communications to human resource management as tools for the creation and development of powerful brands. Although each and every constituent of a corporation communicates something about the corporation, nothing communicates more than the human beings who run it. This necessitates formulation of an employer branding policy, facilitating the organizations to engage, select, hire, train, and retain the most talented workers available and to utilize them for strengthening their corporate brands. In this chapter, we will attempt to elucidate the premise that integration of efforts made for employer branding with corporate branding initiatives taken by an organization may help in the development of powerful corporate brands, leading to sustained competitive advantage and improved growth prospects for the organization.

Harsh Mishra

Papers

Contextualizing Fake News in Post-truth Era: Journalism Education in India

Journalism Education in Post-Truth Era: Pedagogical Approaches Based on Indian Journalism Students’ Perception of Fake News:

“We need to find a revenue model”: Data journalists’ perceptions on the challenges of practicing data journalism in India

Encroachers and victims: Framing of community dynamics by small-town journalists in Dharamshala, India:

The Role of Employer Branding in the Creation of Powerful Corporate Brands