The session will take as its starting point the issues raised in Jonathan Albright's Guardian article of 09 December 2016 entitled Stop worrying about fake news. What comes next will be much worse.
Jonathan Albright
Jonathan Albright is Assistant Professor of Communications at Elon University in North Carolina, USA. He is an award-nominated data journalist, and researcher in news and media analytics. His work lies at the interface of communication, culture and technology, focusing on the thematic analysis of online and socially-mediated news events, creative data-driven journalistic methods and informational visual storytelling. His work has been featured in The Guardian, Fortune, The Washington Post, and Mashable. He writes on Medium, The Conversation, the Huffington Post, and LSE's Impact/USA Politics and Policy.
