219. Clickbait & Sensationalism
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2022-01-24

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- Links for the Curious-

Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

Why Veritasium and MrBeast Aren't Clickbait -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SHAD3ieTKY

Explicating Sensationalism in Television News: Content and the Bells and Whistles of Form (Grabe et al, 2001) - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shuhua-Zhou/publication/249025488_Explicating_Sensationalism_in_Television_News_Content_and_the_Bells_and_Whistles_of_Form/links/54aedd160cf21670b3587480/Explicating-Sensationalism-in-Television-News-Content-and-the-Bells-and-Whistles-of-Form.pdf

Journalism Ethics | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication - https://oxfordre.com/communication/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228613-e-89 


News in an Age of Competition:
The Case of Sensationalism in Dutch
Television News, 1995–2001 (Hendriks et al, 2012) - https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/56468/56468.pdf;sequence=1 
 
Sensationalism in the Newsroom: Its Yellow Beginnings, the Nineteenth Century Legal Transformation, and the Current Seizure of the American Press (Jackson, 2005)  - https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1232&context=ndjlepp  

Packaging Television News: The Effects of Tabloid on Information Processing and Evaluative Responses (Grabe et al, 2000) - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shuhua-Zhou/publication/238400642_Packaging_Television_News_The_Effects_of_Tabloid_on_Information_Processing_and_Evaluative_Responses/links/54da3d670cf246475821c692/Packaging-Television-News-The-Effects-of-Tabloid-on-Information-Processing-and-Evaluative-Responses.pdf 

Presentation and impact of market-driven journalism on sensationalism in global TV news (Wang, 2012) - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tai-Li-Wang/publication/258137496_Presentation_and_impact_of_market-driven_journalism_on_sensationalism_in_global_TV_news/links/5ef1c139458515814a775666/Presentation-and-impact-of-market-driven-journalism-on-sensationalism-in-global-TV-news.pdf 

To Fix Fake News, Look To Yellow Journalism (Samuel, 2016) - https://daily.jstor.org/to-fix-fake-news-look-to-yellow-journalism/ 

The disadvantage of sensationalism in the media (The Hawk Newspaper, staff editorial) - http://www.sjuhawknews.com/the-disadvantage-of-sensationalism-in-the-media/