This book provides journalists and the public with a broad overview of all the ways modern communication technologies and information approaches make it difficult for people to effectively find and interpret information, and what they can do about it.
Jessica Roberts is an assistant professor of communication at the Catholic University of Portugal. She is co-author of the 2021 book Attacks on the American Press and the 2018 book American Journalism and ‘Fake News’: Examining the Facts. Her research on citizen journalism and social media has been published in Journalism, Social Media + Society and the International Journal of Communication, among other publications. Roberts earned her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland and her M.A. at the University of Southern California.
Contact: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Palma de Cima, 1649-023 Lisboa, Portugal.