The decline of traditional media outlets and the rise of non-traditional media outlets has had an increasingly powerful effect on domestic and world events.
• Discuss how and why this has occurred.
• Choose a recent political or economic event and explain how fake news contributed to its outcome.
• Provide some possible solutions to how fake news can be curtailed.
1. ‘A badge of Honour’
2. ‘The Rise of Non-Traditional Site Use for Online Political Information’
3. ‘’ Fake News Is Real: The Significance and Sources of Disbelief in Mainstream Media in Trump’s America)’
4. Trump, Twitter, and news media responsiveness: A media systems approach
5. Influence of traditional and non-traditional news media in the 1992 election campaign
6. Gatekeeping Fake News Discourses on Mainstream Media Versus Social Media
7. Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election (Graphs)
