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Constitutional law, technological innovations, and the rise of a cultural “right to know” have recently combined to yield “fake news,” as illustrated by an anti-abortion citizen-journalist sting operation that scammed Planned Parenthood. We find that the First Amendment, as construed by the Supreme Court, offers scant protection for activist journalists to go undercover to uncover wrongdoing, while providing substantial protection for the spread of falsehoods. By providing activists the means to reach sympathetic slices of the public, the emergence of social media has returned journalism to its roots in political activism, at the expense of purportedly objective and truthful investigative reporting. But the rise of “truthiness” — that is, falsehoods with the ring of truth, diffused through new forms of communication — threatens the integrity of the media. How to respond to these contradictions is a growing problem for advocates of free speech and liberal values more generally.

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Experiências de uma nova economia digital no jornalismo brasileiro: a estratégia de interação colaborativa no Crowdfunding da Agência Pública / Experiences of a New Digital Economy in Brazilian Journalism: Strategy of Collaborative Interaction in Agência Pública's crowdfunding

Revista Internacional de Tecnología, Ciencia y Sociedad ◽

10.37467/gka-revtechno.v5.451 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Sérgio Luiz Gadini ◽

Isadora Ortiz de Camargo

Keyword(s):

Digital Economy ◽

Easy Access ◽

Professional Experience ◽

Investigative Reporting ◽

Types Of Knowledge ◽

Collaborative Interaction ◽

Brazilian Case ◽

Financial Participation

ABSTRACTDigital information provided easy access to many different scenarios and types of knowledge, besides strengthe-ning of media that survives independently managed, where technologies leverage the collective professional experience and techniques with funding from ‘new tools’ and society connected , as is the case of crowdfunding. This perspective of journa-lism that involves collaborative and financial participation of people, the brazilian case of ‘Agência Pública’ uses crowdfun-ding to promote investigative reporting and is the first project to use this strategy in Brazil. This paper relates the project with histories situations about associativism.RESUMOA informação digitalizada proporcionou um fortalecimento dos meios de comunicação que sobrevivem de gestão independente, onde tecnologias potencializam a atuação profissional e financiamento coletivo com técnicas provenientes de novas ferramentas e da sociedade conectada, como é o caso do crowdfunding. Nesta perspectiva de um jornalismo que envolve a participação de pessoas, a Agência Pública utiliza o crowdfunding para fomento de realização de reportagens investigativas e é o primeiro projeto jornalístico a utilizar tal estratégia no Brasil. O estudo relaciona o caso da Agência com experiências históricas, que já trabalhavam com associativismo.

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