Slides for a talk in Australia about how the future of news must involve a more emotionally literate networked journalism

1. Sense and Sensibility:
emotionally networked journalism
Professor Charlie Beckett
Polis, LSE
Adelaide, September 2017

3. Fake news 1844

4. The objective phase

5. ‘Human interest’

6. Drivers towards subjectivity
• Economic (competition)
• Technological (sharing, engagement)
• Data and behavioural science (audience, sentiment)

7. News is now part of our intimate lives

9. Truth, trust and technology: a new agenda for
information and the public sphere

10. Trust: from ‘fake news’ to transparency

11. Technology

12. Networked Emotional Journalism

13. Reinventing human interest as emotional
literacy

14. “The challenge for the networked
journalist is clear: how best to sustain the
ethical, social, and economic value of
journalism in this new emotionally
networked environment.”
Beckett, C and Deuze, M (2016) On the Role of
Emotion in the Future of Journalism (Social Media +
Society)

15. Stay in touch:
• E: c.h.beckett@lse.ac.uk
• Twitter: @CharlieBeckett
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• LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission (Media Policy Project)
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