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This chapter discusses the consequences of mediatization and marketization for public discourse and debate, and offers a proposal for how the academy and the media can work together to meet the challenges that they face in a changing media environment.
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Portions of this paper have been adapted from material published in Hyvönen (2016).
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Hyvönen, M. (2018). As a Matter of Fact: Journalism and Scholarship in the Post-truth Era. In: Peters, M.A., Rider, S., Hyvönen, M., Besley, T. (eds) Post-Truth, Fake News. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8013-5_10
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