“Faculty and students have been agonizing recently about the emergence of fake news—false information packaged to deceive the public into thinking it was produced by professionals with respect for truth,” notes Thomas Fiedler (COM’71), dean of the College of Communication, in his spring 2017 COMtalk column. Another interested consumer of news—Barack Obama—described the new media… Read More
On June 22, 2017, the graduate students of Boston University’s Division of Emerging Media Studies are going to hold their third annual Conference on Emerging Media: #ScreentimeBU. This year’s theme is “Fake News, Real Emotion, and the Mediated Self.” #ScreentimeBU aims to explore the civic, social, and psychological implications of today’s media landscape. This conference is… Read More
It’s what the chattering classes have been chattering about since election day—the wave of fake news that rolled through America’s political discourse in the 2016 presidential campaign via social media, swamping voters with false reports ranging from the pope endorsing Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton helping run a child sex ring at a Washington pizzeria…. Read More
COM Dean Tom Fiedler appears on WGBH’s Beat the Press with Emily Rooney, Dan Kennedy, Callie Crossley and Jonanna Weiss to share his insight about the surgent rise of “fake news” in relation to the 2016 presidential election, social media and mainstream media. Written by: Tatiana M.R. Johnson