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Sense and Sensibility:
emotionally networked journalism
Professor Charlie Beckett
Polis, LSE
Adelaide, September 2017

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Fake news 1844

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The objective phase

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‘Human interest’

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Drivers towards subjectivity
• Economic (competition)
• Technological (sharing, engagement)
• Data and behavioural science (audience, sentiment)

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News is now part of our intimate lives

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Truth, trust and technology: a new agenda for
information and the public sphere

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Trust: from ‘fake news’ to transparency

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Technology

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Networked Emotional Journalism

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Reinventing human interest as emotional
literacy

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“The challenge for the networked
journalist is clear: how best to sustain the
ethical, social, and economic value of
journalism in this new emotionally
networked environment.”
Beckett, C and Deuze, M (2016) On the Role of
Emotion in the Future of Journalism (Social Media +
Society)

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Stay in touch:
• E: c.h.beckett@lse.ac.uk
• Twitter: @CharlieBeckett
• Blog: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/category/director/
• Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/charliebeckett
• LSE Dept of Media and Communications:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/profile.aspx?Key
Value=c.h.beckett%40lse.ac.uk
• LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission (Media Policy Project)
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/