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Apr 29, 2024
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CAS 330 - News, Disinformation and Truth in the Digital Age 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the political, economic and structural roots of the current crisis of truth and accepted knowledge in American political discourse. Why do so many people believe things that aren’t true? Conventional wisdom blames Social Media and nefarious trolls and bots. We will examine them, but also will look deeper for answers in the legal, regulatory, business, political, and social choices and trends of the past 25 years. These have fundamentally changed long-standing patterns and practices in the news media industry and the journalism profession that had helped establish a common body of factual knowledge.
Listed also as POSC 330 , SOC 332 , and SJCE 330 .
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