SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Abdolkarim Soroush, Media Literacy, Digital Divide

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1

Document Summary

Help us forge our very identities, our notions of gender, our sense of class, of ethnicity & race, of nationality, of sexuality. Media very important in trump"s political reign. One of the words of the year for 2017. False often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting. Trump popularized its use in the last 2 years to characterize any negative coverage. Has declared the press the enemy of the people . In largest ever study on fake news performed by soroush vosoughi & colleagues. They investigated the differential diffusion of all the verified true & false news stories distributed on twitter from 2006 to 2017. The data comprise ~ 126,000 stories tweeted by ~3 million people more than 4. 5 million times. They classified news as true or false using information from 6 independent fact-checking organizations that exhibited 95-98% agreement on the classifications.