Staying true to journalistic principles in an era of alternative facts

Chua, Yvonne T.

doi:10.1080/01296612.2017.1455593

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“…In light of what has been discussed above, this article re-iterates that counter-disinformation strategies that overly emphasize the informational dimension of communication are not enough. Journalistic fact-checking is of course helpful, and so is media literacy (see Chua, 2017; Nery, 2019). But they tend to put undue burden on individuals.…”

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Digital Disinformation and the Imaginative Dimension of Communication

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2020

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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To nuance current understandings of the proliferation of digital disinformation, this article seeks to develop an approach that emphasizes the imaginative dimension of this communication phenomenon. Anchored on ideas about the sociality of communication, this piece conceptualizes how fake news and political trolling online work in relation to particular shared understandings people have of their socio-political landscape. It offers the possibility of expanding the information-oriented approach to communication taken by many journalistic interventions against digital disinformation. It particularly opens up alternatives to the problematic strategy of challenging social media manipulation solely by doubling down on objectivity and facts.

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Digital Disinformation and the Imaginative Dimension of Communication

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Staying true to journalistic principles in an era of alternative facts

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