Open AccessJournalism Education and Fake News
Author(s) -
Tijana Vukić
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medijska istraživanja/medijska istraživanja
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.11
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1846-6605
pISSN - 1330-6928
DOI - 10.22572/mi.26.2.4
Subject(s) - journalism , technical journalism , context (archaeology) , curriculum , sociology , political science , public relations , media literacy , perspective (graphical) , news media , media studies , pedagogy , computer science , history , archaeology , artificial intelligence
This article offers a scholarly review of the literature and research on journalism education and fake news from an international and a local (Croatian) perspective. The purpose of this paper is to examine the connection between theeducation for journalists as a scholarly and academic discipline (as well as ateaching practice) and the issues caused by fake news in the digital age of massmedia. Based on a comprehensive critical conceptual analysis of the body ofknowledge available on the subject, it was determined that there is a diversediscussion about the status of journalism education regarding fake news. In thatcontext, fake news has so far been internationally researched from several angles– curriculum content, journalism students, journalism and media studies, journalism practice, media audience, etc. When addressing the issue of education ofjournalists and fake news, three streams can be singled out. The first and mostvoluminous one refers to the systematic formal or additional education regardingmedia and information literacy. The next one refers to various changes related tothe higher education system for the education of journalists, but without any concrete propositions for system reconstruction or upgrading. The last one advocates providing additional professional education to employed journalists. Fromthe local perspective, even though only two articles suggest journalism educationas a solution for the problems caused by fake news, based on thorough researchit can be concluded that fake news and journalism education are not yet topics ofinterest among communication scholars in Croatia.