
What IS News?
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News does not happen in a vacuum and journalism is a practice with a definable milieu which manufactures a product shaped by a complex and subjective collection, organization, and dissemination of information. The social import of revisiting Herbert Gans' "what is news" ethnographic query in 1979 played out in earnest in 2020. Americans watched news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic offer politicized health information complete with conflicting reports of disagreeing experts, conspiracy theories, vaccination resistance, and racist language targeting China and people of Asian descent. This collection expands on mass communication theory frameworks built since the 1970s, to enable us to better operationalize and understand mass media's role in defining, shaping, and amplifying news.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication and Society.
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Lindsay Hoffman is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Delaware, USA. She is also Associate Director of the Center for Political Communication at UD, and her research focuses on the intersection of politics and technology.
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Donnalyn Pompper and Lindsay Hoffman
1. "I Know It When I See It": Constructing Emotion and Emotional Labor in Social Justice News
Allison J. Steinke and Valerie Belair-Gagnon
2. When Pundits Weigh In: Do Expert and Partisan Critiques in News Reports Shape Ordinary Individuals' Interpretations of Polls?
Ozan Kuru, Josh Pasek and Michael W. Traugott
3. News, Nationalism, and Hegemony: The Formation of Consistent Issue Framing Throughout the U.S. Political Right
Burton Speakman and Marcus Funk
4. The Ineffectiveness of Fact-Checking Labels on News Memes and Articles
Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Mike Schmierbach, Alyssa Appelman and Michael P. Boyle
5. The Influence of Presumed Fake News Influence: Examining Public Support for Corporate Corrective Response, Media Literacy Interventions, and Governmental Regulation
Yang Cheng and Zifei Fay Chen
6. That's Not News: Audience Perceptions of "News-ness" and Why It Matters
Stephanie Edgerly and Emily K. Vraga
7. "Fake News Is Anything They Say!" - Conceptualization and Weaponization of Fake News among the American Public
Chau Tong, Hyungjin Gill, Jianing Li, Sebastian Valenzuela and Hernando Rojas
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