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  title info:
    title: Fact-Checking Journalism and Political Argumentation
    sub title: A British Perspective
  name:
    name part: Birks, Jen.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 111 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: "Dr Birks eloquently guides the reader through a complex field of mediated post-truth politics in an engaging and accessible critique of fact checking journalism. In this book we are treated to a highly sophisticated analysis of the dynamics and epistemologies of fact checking journalism, with detailed examples from a UK perspective, where Birks demonstrates the importance of understanding fact-checking in relation to the quality of political debate. The book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the contested nature of fact and truth claims in journalism today." -Einar Thorsen, Associate Professor of Journalism and Communication, Bournemouth University, UK "In an era of post-factual democracy, fact-checkers should act as an antidote to politician's 'bullshit', helping citizens to make informed choices. Birks' important research is a must read for anyone seeking to understand fact checkers or create a fact check system that plays a role in monitoring the health of democratic debate." -Darren G. Lilleker, Associate Professor in Political Communication, Bournemouth University, UK This timely book examines the role of fact-checking journalism within political policy debates, and its potential contribution to public engagement. Understanding facts not to operate in a political vacuum, the book argues for a wide remit for fact-checking journalism beyond empirically-checkable facts, to include the causal relationships and predictions that form part of wider political arguments and are central to electoral pledges. Whilst these statements cannot be proven or disproven, fact-checking can, and sometimes does, ask pertinent critical questions about the premises of those claims and arguments. The analysis centres on the three dedicated national British fact-checkers during the UK's 2017 snap general election, including their activity and engagement on Twitter. The book also makes a close political discourse and argumentation analysis of three key issue debates …
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Objectivity and interpretation in fact-checking journalism -- 3. Fact-checking claims, policies and parties -- 4. The role of fact-checking in political argumentation -- 5. Conclusion.
  note: by Jen Birks.
  subject:
    topic: Journalism
  subject:
    topic: Communication
  subject:
    topic: Political communication
  subject:
    topic: Journalism
  subject:
    topic: Media and Communication
  subject:
    topic: Journalism
  subject:
    topic: Political Communication
  classification: PN4699-5650
  classification: 070.4
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030305734
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30573-4
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    record creation date: 191115
    record change date: 20191115083838.0
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