Journalism and Truth in an Age of Social Media
Edited by James E. Katz and Kate K. Mays
Author Information
James E. Katz is Feld Professor of Emerging Media at Boston University's College of Communication, where he directs its Division of Emerging Media Studies. He has been awarded a Distinguished Fulbright Chair to Italy, fellowships at Princeton, Harvard, and MIT, and the Ogburn Career Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association. Dr. Katz is an elected fellow of the International Communication Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Kate K. Mays is completing her PhD in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University's College of Communication and is a Graduate Student Fellow for computational and data-driven research at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University. She has presented her research findings at a variety of international conferences and in several journals. After graduating from Georgetown University, she worked in the publishing industry before coming to Boston University for advanced studies.
Contributors:
Colin Agur is Assistant Professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. A former research fellow at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, he is also affiliated with Yale Law School's Information Society Project and was recently a resident faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the University of Minnesota.
Valerie Belair-Gagnon is a Media Sociologist, an Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She directs the Minnesota Journalism Center and is affiliated with the Yale Information Society Project.
Erik P. Bucy is Marshall and Sharleen Formby Regents Professor of Strategic Communication in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. His research focuses on misinformation, nonverbal communication, and digital media and has been funded by the National Association of Broadcasters; CSPAN Education Foundation; Social Science Research Council; and Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
Juliet Floyd is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. She has been a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Bordeaux 3, Université Michel de Montaigne, and a fellow of the Dibner Institute at MIT and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, an institute of advanced study at the Georg August Universität, Göttingen.
R. Kelly Garrett is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Ohio State University. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and he was previously a senior research fellow at the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) at the University of California, Irvine.
Lucas Graves is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also a faculty affiliate of the Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies and the Center for Communication and Democracy. From 2017 to 2019 he was Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. His book Deciding What's True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism came out in 2016 from Columbia University Press.
Yael de Haan is Applied Professor of Journalism in Digital Transition at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University van Amsterdam.
John Maxwell Hamilton is Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism at Louisiana State University's Manship School of Mass Communication and Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. A longtime journalist, academic, and public servant, he was a founding dean of the Manship School and reported abroad for ABC Radio and the Christian Science Monitor, among other media. His most recent book, Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting, won the Goldsmith Prize. He was a fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
James E. Katz is Feld Professor of Emerging Media at Boston University's College of Communication, where he directs the Center for Mobile Communication Studies and Division of Emerging Media, and Distinguished Professor at Peking University in Beijing. Before Boston University, he received the highest faculty honor at Rutgers University as its Board of Governors Professor of Communication, and he was twice Chair of the Department of Communication there. He has been awarded a Distinguished Fulbright Chair to Italy; fellowships at Princeton, Harvard, and MIT; and the Ogburn career achievement award from the American Sociological Association. He is also a fellow of the International Communication Association and the American Association for the Advancement Science (AAAS). Earlier he was a Distinguished Member of Staff and Director of the social science research unit at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).
Nicole M. Krause is a doctoral candidate in Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sanne Kruikemeier is Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University van Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the consequences and implications of online communication for individuals and society.
Sophie Lecheler is Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna in Austria. She was also a Marie Curie Research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Associate Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR) at the University van Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Kate K. Mays is a doctoral candidate in the Division of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University's College of Communication. She is also a graduate student fellow for computational and data-driven research at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering at Boston University.
Maria D. Molina is a doctoral student (ABD) in the Donald P. Bellasario College of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University. Maria's research builds upon psychology and communication theory to advance interface design and user experience of digital media technologies. She is particularly interested in social and motivational technologies. Among her projects is the examination of the role of technological affordances in the consumption of false information and on tracking technologies in the health context. Her research on misinformation is supported by the US National Science Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation, and WhatsApp.
John E. Newhagen is Associate Professor Emeritus in the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Prior to his academic career he worked as a foreign correspondent in Central America and the Caribbean, serving as bureau chief in San Salvador, regional correspondent in Mexico City, and foreign editor in Washington, DC for United Press International during the 1980s.
Peppino Ortoleva has been Professor of Media History and Theory at the University of Torino, and for over 40 years has been a scholar, critic, and curator at the crossroads of history, media studies, TV and radio authoring, and museums and exhibitions. His most recent book is Miti a bassa intensità. Racconti, media, vita quotidiana ("Low Intensity Myths. Stories, Media, Daily Life), Einaudi, Torino, 2019.
Dietram A. Scheufele is the John E. Ross Professor in Science Communication and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in the Morgridge Institute for Research. He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Communication Association, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
Edward Schiappa is the John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities and Professor and Head of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been editor of Argumentation and Advocacy and received the Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical and Rhetorical and Communication Theory Distinguished Scholar Awards. He has been named a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar.
Michael Schudson is Professor of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is a MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellow, and has also been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Groningen, The Netherlands in 2014 and by Hong Kong Baptist University in 2018.
Zeynep Soysal is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Rochester. She was formerly a postdoctoral associate on the Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Grant, "Humanities and Technology at the Crossroads, 2016-2018" at Boston University after she received her doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University.
S. Shyam Sundar is James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects and Co-Director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory at the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications in The Pennsylvania State University. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Facebook Inc., and Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services. He edited the first-ever Handbook of the Psychology of Communication Technology (Wiley Blackwell 2015) and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication from 2013 to 2017.
David L. Swartz, following retirement from full-time teaching, is a Researcher in the Department of Sociology at Boston University, where he was previously Assistant Professor. He is a Senior Editor and Book Review Editor of Theory and Society. He is formerly Chair of the History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and Co-Chair of the Political Sociology Standing Group in the European Consortium of Political Sociology.
Edson C. Tandoc Jr. is Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, as well as the Director of the PhD and master's research programs there. He is an Associate Editor for Digital Journalism, and Chair of the Newspaper and Online News Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Heidi Tworek is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where she is also a member of the Science and Technology Studies program, the Language Science Initiative, and the Institute for European Studies at UBC. She is a visiting fellow at the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University as well as a non-resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. She has held visiting fellowships at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC; Birkbeck; University of London; and the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany. She was previously Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer in the History Department at Harvard University. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Brian E. Weeks is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and a faculty associate in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan.
Chris Wells is Assistant Professor in the Division of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University's College of Communication, where he studies political communication and digital media. His book The Civic Organization and the Digital Citizen: Communicating Engagement in a Networked Age was published by Oxford University Press in 2015.
Christopher D. Wirz is a doctoral candidate in Life Sciences Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Michael A. Xenos is Professor of Communication Science in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Life Sciences Communication and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is also (with Paul R. Brewer) Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Public Opinion Research and has previously served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics.
