Jessica Roberts

jessicaroberts@ucp.pt

This book provides an overview of the ways modern communication technologies and information approaches interact with human cognition to make it difficult for people to effectively find and interpret information and what journalists can do about it

The central argument of the book is that journalists and audiences can no longer afford to pretend that all information is competing on an even playing field and that it is enough for journalists to simply publish “the facts.” Effective Journalism attempts to explain the reality, rather than the ideal, of how people seek and process information, and what journalists and their audiences can do to try to create an informed public in the face of that reality.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

PART I: STRUCTURAL CHALLENGES IN OUR INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM

1. Information Proliferation

2. The Attention Economy

3. Customization and Filters and Bots

4. The Competitive Advantage of Junk News

PART II: COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE BARRIERS TO PROCESSING INFORMATION

5. The Dual-Process Model

6. Motivated Reasoning and Bias

7. Emotion and Information

PART III: THE SOLUTIONS

8. New Movements in Journalism

9. Strategies to Effectively Debunk False Information

10. Empathy Cultivation and Building Community

11. Effective Journalism Practices

12. Solutions for Tech Companies, Government, and the Public

Conclusion

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