Fact-Checking Journalism and Political Argumentation A British Persp
“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 epistemol
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Jen Birks
Fact-Checking Journalism and Political Argumentation
Jen Birks
Fact-Checking Journalism and Political Argumentation A British Perspective
Jen Birks Department of Cultural, Media & Visual Studies University of Nottingham, University Park Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK
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Acknowledgements
This project started with an interest in the debate around the European Union (EU) referendum debate, so I suppose I should thank David Cameron for ensuring we live in ‘interesting times,’ but I won’t. My initial thoughts on fact-checking journalism were exercised at Stuart Price’s Disruptive Events symposium at De Montfort University in December 2016, and thereafter at various other excellent events including Mark Wheeler and Petros Iosifidis’ Trump, Brexit and Corbyn: Social Media, Authenticity and Post-Truth (City University, May 2018) and Cumberland Lodge’s conference, The Politics of (Post) Truth (December 2018). I extend my thanks to the organisers for their kind invitations and for taking on the onerous task of organising academics. At those and other conferences (notably PSA 2017 and MeCCSA 2019), I benefitted from erudite comments from and fruitful discussion with many friends and colleagues too numerous to list, but special mention goes to James Morrison for insisting that I should write a book on this without delay, Darren Lilleker
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