False Impressions: How Digital Editing is Altering Public Discourse

Bill Loving ., Brady Teufel

Abstract


The purpose of this paper is to explore how digital
editing technology is facilitating public misrepresentation –
specifically, how easily it is perpetrated, how widespread it has
become, how damaging it is to public discourse


Keywords


media credibility; mainstream media; altered quotations; Barack Obama; Mitt Romney; Paul Ryan; Jerry Falwell; Larry Flint; Jeffrey Masson; Janet Malcolm; New Yorker; you didn’t build that; 2012 presidential campaign; Audacity; YouTube; iMovie; Windows Mov

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