
Название: Fake News vs Media Studies: Travels in a False Binary
Автор: Julian McDougall
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Страниц: 255
Размер: 12,2 Mb
Язык: English
This book explores the place of Media Studies in the age of ‘fake news’, analysing the calls for a curriculum of critical news literacy as part of a cyclical policy debate. With the need for young people in democracies to understand mainstream news agendas and take a critical perspective on social media news, including so-called ‘fake news’, this book argues for Media Studies as a mandatory subject. However, ‘fake news’ is not presented in the book as a stable, neutral term with a clear definition, but is instead defined as an idea that risks obscuring the key critical and political premise of Media Studies. All media representation requires critical deconstruction: therefore, any distinction between ‘real’ and ‘fake’ media is a false binary.