Fake news and fake politics March 2017
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Lecture to Northwestern London seminar series. It looks at the change in the role of news media in democracy, how the news industry has changed to a more networked system with new publishers and platforms becoming more influential. It examines the rise of fake news and the crisis of trust in news media and how politicians have responded.
![What does journalism do for politics?
• Information
[facts, records, statistics, events,
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• Deliberation
[debate, analysis, comment, opinion]
• Accountability
[investigation, audit, voice for
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Fake news and fake politics March 2017
- 1. Journalism and Politics: Fake news and fake politics Prof Charlie Beckett @CharlieBeckett March 2017
- 2. What does journalism do for politics? • Information [facts, records, statistics, events, policies] • Deliberation [debate, analysis, comment, opinion] • Accountability [investigation, audit, voice for citizen, campaigns]
- 3. History of political news: a battle between journalists & power • Inns of court • Holborn printers • Covent Garden coffee houses • Fleet Street national newsrooms • Broadcasting – public and commercial • Old Street – Tech City
- 4. News is now networked and blended into information ecology • Mixed market of publishers (legacy, native, amateur, corporate etc) • More, varied platforms (TV, radio, print, SM, Internet) • On demand and personalised • Direct communication (disintermediation) • Online and mobile • Different formats: video, data visualisations, alerts • User at the centre • Narrative control and influence now ‘distributed’
- 7. Political reporting is now networked Media Politicians Citizens
- 8. Abundance of sources = lack of trust?
- 9. Abundance of sources = lack of trust?
- 10. Abundance of sources = lack of trust?
- 11. Abundance of sources = lack of trust?
- 12. Mixed media ecology: legacy, native & social
- 14. Fake news
- 17. What digital can do for democracy • More information • Citizen voice and participation • Media held to account • Access to politicians • Direct communication (disintermediation) • Information overload • Faster • More personal (filter bubbles) • More emotional (personalities, anger) • Manipulation, misinformation
- 24. A new kind of (anti-media) politics?
- 27. It’s not working yet…
- 29. Disrupting media as a strategy
- 30. Contact me: Prof Charlie Beckett Polis, LSE @CharlieBeckett c.h.beckett@lse.ac.uk
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- So I think that networked journalism is itself a more democratic form of journalism because it shifts power and engages public participation. It changes the media model from this
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