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News Literacy and Democracy

Routledge (2020), xi, 206 pp.

ISBN 978-1-138-62505-1 (hbk); 978-1-138-62506-8 (pbk)

CC BY-NC-ND

PART I: WHY NEWS LITERACY?
1 What Is News Literacy? Content and Context, 3
2 What Citizens Know About News and Why It Matters, 33
PART II: CRITICAL CONTEXTS FOR DEMOCRATIC LIFE
3 The Decline of Journalism and the Rise of "Fake News", 63
4 The Structure of News Media Systems, 88
5 The Political Economy of the Internet, 117
6 Human Psychology and the Audience Problem, 146
PART III: THE FUTURE OF NEWS LITERACY
7 Making News Literacy Work for Democracy, 173