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Syllabus:

Digital source criticism, 7.5 credits

Swedish name: Digital källkritik
This syllabus is valid: 2025-01-20 and until further notice
Syllabus for courses starting after 2025-01-20
Course code: 1KO076
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: Media and Communication Studies: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Culture and Media Studies
Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2020-03-02
Revised by: Head of Department of Culture and Media Studies, 2024-06-19

Literature

Valid from: 2025 week 4

Fake News and The Economy of Emotions
Bakir V, McStacy A
Digital Journalism : 2018 :
Mandatory

The disinformation order: Disruptive communication and the decline of democratic institutions
Bennett W.L, Livingstone S
European Journal of Communication : 2018 :
European Journal of Communication, 33(2), 122–139. (18 s)
Mandatory

Critical questions for big data: Provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
Boyd Danah, Crawford K
Information, Communication & Society : 2012 :
Information, Communication & Society, 15(5). (18 s.)
Mandatory

Bucher Taina
If…Then: Algorithmic power and politics
New York: Oxford University Press. : 2018 :

Mandatory

Fake news as a two-dimensional phenomenon: a framework and research agenda
Egelhofer, J.L, Lecheler, S
Annals of the International Communication Association. 43(2). : 2019 :
PDF
Mandatory

Fake News as a Floating Signifier: Hegemony, Antagonism and the Politics of Falsehood, Javnost
Farkas J, Schou J
The Public : 2018 :
The Public, 25:3, 298-314
Mandatory

Big Data & Society, 5(2)
Gray J, Gerlitz C, Bounegru L
Big Data & Society : 2018 :

Mandatory

Algoritmer : så påverkar de din vardag
Haider Jutta, Sundin Olof
[Stockholm] : Internetstiftelsen i Sverige (IIS) : [2017] : 43 sidor :
ISBN: 9789176119761
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue

Harsin J
Post-Truth and Critical Communication Studies
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. (32 s.) : 2018 :
PDF
Mandatory

Algoritmer i samhället
Haider Jutta, Sundin Olof
Lund : Lunds Universitet : 2016 : 35 s. :
Fulltext

Tsfati, Yariv et al
Causes and consequences of mainstream media dissemination of fake news:
Annals of the International Communication Association. 44(2), 157–173 : 2020 :

Mandatory

Zelizer B
Resetting journalism in the aftermath of Brexit and Trump
European Journal of Communication, 33(2), 140–156 : 2018 :

Mandatory

Gillespie, Tarleton
Custodians of the internet: Platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media
Yale University Press : 2018 :
Custodians of the internet-
Mandatory

Noble Safiya U
). Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.
New York University Press : 2018 :
Algorithms of Oppression
Mandatory