Fake-Checking

A Journalist's Guide to Deepfakes
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-74131-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Designed to help journalists keep pace with the rapid evolution of deepfakes as well as integrate “fake-checking” methods into their routine reporting practices, this book offers a concise and accessible guide for reporters navigating this evolving challenge.

This text aims to assist journalists in understanding the complexities of deepfakes from a number of angles including philosophical, historical, technical, and methodological. Rather than approaching deepfakes as a “journalistic apocalypse”, this book contextualizes them in the larger historical practice of fact-checking and as a continuum of technological advances in image and video manipulation. Encouraging readers to view fact-checking as a multimodal process, it stresses the importance of combining philosophical and technical tools, especially ones based in epistemology and AI, with the “pavement pounding” essentials of good journalism. The book concludes with a chapter addressing how to explain deepfakes to a public progressively more concerned about the realities and consequences of AI and misinformation.

Fake-Checking serves as a practical reference for journalists and advanced media students who are increasingly required to identify and verify potential deepfakes and their future iterations.

This book is supported by online resources which can be accessed at www.routledge.com/9781032741321.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hickerson, Andrea

Schwartz, Christopher

Wright, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction: From Fact-Checking to Fake-Checking

Chapter 1: Fact-Checking Confronts the Challenge of Deepfakes

Chapter 2: The Evolution of Fakery and Deepfakes

Chapter 3: Detection Practices and Tools

Chapter 4: Deepfake Uses, Ethics, and Emerging Challenges

Chapter 5: Helping Audiences Make Sense of Deepfakes

Conclusion: Journalism in the Matrix?

Glossary

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Hickerson is a Professor and Dean of the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi, USA.

Christopher Schwartz is a Research Scientist in the Department of Cybersecurity at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.

Matthew Wright is Kevin O’Sullivan Professor and Chair of Cybersecurity at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.