Here’s a tentative schedule of Fake News readings offered in chronological order because that’s just what you do on a syllabus. Basically, we recommend you read some or none of these articles, whenever. Help us extend this list on this Google Doc. (Request edit privileges to add to it.) You might also want to check out this resource on how to publish on Medium.

Resources:

Fake News List:

Google Doc with list of news outlets evaluated.

Fact Check.org

http://www.factcheck.org/

Reddit: Fake News board:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fakenews/

About Fake News

History:

Summer reading: The Real History of Fake News by David Uberti

The True History of Fake News by Robert Darnton

See also the Fake News Timeline here

Books

Tabloid Valley: Supermarket News and American Culture. by Paul E. Morton

Scandals in American History. By Alan Bisbort

The Dissident Press: Alternative Journalism in American History. by Lauren Kessler

Smoking Typewriters. By John McMillian

The Martians Have Landed! A History of Media-Driven Panics and Hoaxes. By Robert Bartholomew and Benjamin Radford

The Daily Show and Rhetoric: Arguments, Issues, and Strategies. Ed. by Trischa Goodnow

The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News. Ed. by Amarnath Amarasingam

Is Fake News the Real News? by Mark K. McBeth & Randy S. Clemons

#100HardTruths — by Alex Juhasz

Case Studies:

Jan 20: Pizzagate: From rumor, to hashtag, to gunfire in D.C, Washington Post.

Jan 21: From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece by Scott Shane, NY Times.

The Making of Jayson Blair. by David Folkenflik

Fake News & Media Literacy:

Jan 22: Did Media Literacy Backfire? by danah boyd

This Analysis Shows How Fake Election News Stories Outperformed Real News On Facebook

Hacking the Attention Economy by danah boyd

Jan 23:

What’s Propaganda Got To Do With It? by Caroline Jack

Are There Limits to Online Free Speech? by Alice Marwick

Why America is Self-Segregating by danah boyd

How do you deal with a problem like “fake news?” by Robyn Caplan

Jan 24

Media, Technology, Politics: six new pieces on the networked public sphere

The Right Is Building A New Media “Upside Down” To Tell Trump’s Story by Charlie Warzel

Distinguishing Fact from Fake:

Jan 25:

Fake Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts

How to Tell Truth from fiction in the age of fake news Chicago Tribune Editorial Board

What is fake news and what can you do to stop it?

Fake News Sniffing Plugins for Google Chrome.

The Real Stories of Fake News Writers:

Jan 26

“I’ve Been Making Viral Fake News for the Last Six Months. It’s Way Too Easy to Dupe the Right on the Internet.” Marco Chacon

Jan 26: Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’

Jan 27:

We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned

Four Crazy Quotes from a Fake News Writer

Jan 28:

How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News

Creator of anti-Clinton fake news campaign that swept nation tells why he did it

Bots & Fake News

Jan 30: How Pro-Trump Twitter Bots Spread Fake News

Twitter Bots Favored Trump Leading Up to Election by Jeff Nesbit

How people Ca$h in:

Feb 1 This is how Facebook’s fake-news writers make money

Legal Eagles

Feb 5

Fake News and the Law: From 1798 to Now

Isn’t Fake News Defamation?, Virginia Defamatory Lawyer.com

What Legal Resource do Victimes of Fake News Stories have?

Fake News Sites: Legal or Illegal?

The End

Feb 9

Fake News is Now a Tainted Term. It is time to retire it.