The collection is introduced with an essay by Barbie Zelizer and organized into three sections: how tabloidization affects the journalistic landscape; how technology changes what we think we know about journalism; and how truthiness tweaks our understanding of the journalistic tradition. Short section introductions contextualise the essays and highlight the issues that they raise, creating a coherent study of journalism today.
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"These essays invite the reader to see the opportunities for the renewal of journalism and contribute significant discussion to the debate over journalism's future...Highly recommended." -CHOICE
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| Introduction: Why Journalism's Changing Faces Matter |
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| On Tabloidization |
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1. Rethinking a Villain, Redeeming a Format: The Crisis and Cure in Tabloidization |
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2. Can Popularization Help the News Media? |
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3. Tears and Trauma in the News |
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4. Tabloidization: What is it, and Does it Really Matter? |
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| On Technology |
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5. Rethinking Journalism Through Technology |
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6. Materiality and Mimicry in the Journalism Field |
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7. The Guardian of the Real: Journalism in the Time of the New Mind |
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8. Technology and the Individual Journalist: Agency Beyond Imitation and Change |
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| On Truthiness |
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9. Rethinking Truth Through Truthiness |
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10. Factual Knowledge in the Age of Truthiness |
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11. The Moment of Truthiness: The Right Time to Consider the Meaning of Truthfulness |
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12. Believable Fictions: Redactional Culture and the Will to Truthiness |
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| Afterword |
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The Troubling Evolution of Journalism |
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Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. A former journalist, Zelizer is known for her work in the area of journalism, culture, memory and images, particularly in times of crisis. Previous publications for Routledge include Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime (2004) and Journalism After September 11 (2002) (both co-edited with Stuart Allan) and Explorations in Communication and History (2008).
