The Fact-Checking Universe in Spring 2012: An Overview
by Tom Glaisyer
Co-authored with Lucas Graves
By almost any measure, the 2012 presidential race is shaping up to be the most fact-checked electoral contest in... more
By almost any measure, the 2012 presidential race is shaping up to be the most fact-checked electoral contest in American history. Every new debate and campaign ad yields a blizzard of fact-checking from the new full-time fact-checkers, from traditional news outlets in print and broadcast, and from partisan political organizations of various stripes. And though fact-checking still peaks before elections it is now a year-round enterprise that challenges political claims beyond the campaign trail.
This increasingly crowded and contentious landscape raises at least two fundamental questions. First, who counts as a legitimate fact-checker? The various kinds of fact-checking at work both inside and outside of journalism must be considered in light of their methods, their audiences, and their goals. And second, how effective are fact-checkers—or how effective could they be—in countering widespread misinformation in American political life? The success of the fact-checkers must be assessed in three related areas: changing people’s minds, changing journalism, and changing the political conversation. Can fact-checking really stop a lie in its tracks? Can public figures be shamed into being more honest? Or has the damage been done by the time the fact-checkers intervene?
This report reviews the shape of the fact-checking landscape today. It pays special attention to the divide between partisan and nonpartisan fact-checkers, and between fact-checking and conventional reporting. It then examines what we know and what we don’t about the effectiveness of fact-checking, using the media footprint of various kinds of fact-checkers as an initial indicator of the influence these groups wield. Media analysis shows how political orientation limits fact-checkers’ impact in public discourse.
The Impact of Information Quality on Information Research
by Sam Lubbe
co-authors: Grant Howard and Rembrandt Klopper
This contribution analyses the impact of information quality on research. It presents a theoretical discussion of the... more This contribution analyses the impact of information quality on research. It presents a theoretical discussion of the concept ‘information quality’ and shows that good information quality entails good research. The discussion is relevant for both researchers and research users, because it shows that information quality is a critical determinant of research success, as measured by the creation of new knowledge. Thus, information quality fundamentally impacts research. Reasons for the existence of low quality information as well as proposed solutions to this problem are provided in the paper.
La marca comercial como resultado de procesos perceptivos
by Luis Miguel Romero Rodríguez
Paper que se encuentra contenido en el Capítulo 1 del Libro "Gestión Comunicacional de la Crisis" (Romero, L; 2010) Ed. CEAC
Todas las organizaciones, empresas, proyectos, personalidades públicas, productos y sistemas tienen diferentes... more Todas las organizaciones, empresas, proyectos, personalidades públicas, productos y sistemas tienen diferentes elementos adheridos a su propio ser que los identifica y los hace diferentes. A este conjunto de elementos se les denomina en el ámbito de la comunicación corporativa “valores”, que en sentido general es una cualidad que permite ponderar los beneficios o características especiales sui generis de un elemento. (Frondizi, 1962) Hay tres posiciones encontradas acerca de los valores de los elementos; una que considera que el valor existe independientemente del observador, por lo tanto entiende a los valores como un elemento axiológico objetivo (Platón); la segunda que establece que el observador es el que pondera ese valor, por lo que es un proceso neurológico-apreciativo totalmente subjetivo (George Berkeley) y una tercera corriente, denominada axiología materialista, que entiende que el ser humano tiende a valorar al mundo objetivamente, por lo que la naturaleza del valor es objetiva, pero es interpretada subjetivamente por la conciencia de los individuos. Ante este conflicto de conceptos, la axiología moderna ha tratado de evitar seguir indagando en el debate, proponiendo la tercera corriente mencionada con anterioridad
Radiografía de las Crisis Comunicacionales
by Luis Miguel Romero Rodríguez
Paper que se encuentra contenido en el Capítulo 2 del Libro "Gestión Comunicacional de la Crisis" (Romero, L; 2010) Ed. CEAC
Ya habiendo estudiado la marca como el mayor capital de una organización, empresa, personalidad, sistema, producto,... more Ya habiendo estudiado la marca como el mayor capital de una organización, empresa, personalidad, sistema, producto, servicio o proyecto; que ese capital se basa en percepciones, que las percepciones son frágiles, que los medios manejan muchas veces esas percepciones a nivel masivo y que la opinión pública suele responder a esos mismos intereses de los medios, repasaremos las características comunes de una crisis, en pro de identificar las gestiones propicias para limitar sus efectos negativos y su impacto en el sistema de referencia.
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