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This book is about Media Studies. It’s written for teachers, students, academics, librarians, journalists and researchers with an interest in Media Studies or concerns about fake news or both. It explains how Media Studies can help us with our anxieties about fake news and misinformation. But it’s also for parents, politicians, policymakers and everyone else who wants to think seriously about the role of media in our society and the role of education in response to the ever-changing media landscape. For all its intended audiences, the book makes an argument for the teaching of Media Studies in schools and it makes a new case for changing the status of the subject for students from optional to compulsory.
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McDougall, J. (2019). Introduction. In: Fake News vs Media Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27220-3_1
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