Jessica Roberts explains how the cognitive and emotional factors affecting human behaviour converge with the structural factors in current communication technologies to create an unhealthy information ecosystem, one in which journalists are at a disadvantage.
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 explains 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.
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Jessica Roberts is an assistant professor of communication at the Catholic University of Portugal. She is co-author of the 2021 book Attacks on the American Press and the 2018 book American Journalism and 'Fake News': Examining the Facts. Her research on citizen journalism and social media has been published in Journalism, Social Media + Society and the International Journal of Communication, among other publications. Roberts earned her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland and her M.A. at the University of Southern California.
Contact: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Palma de Cima, 1649-023 Lisboa, Portugal.