Russell Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6161-4888 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1898 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fake News vs. “Foke” News
This brief essay outlines the forms of fake news that arose in the journalism world in recent decades and shows how they eroded the credibility of mainstream news sources and created an opening for alternative news, including, ironically, fake news—which also takes many forms. In an attempt to distinguish fake news that is meant to deceive from fake news that is meant to amuse, the term “foke” news is proposed
Caveat Lector
We are awash in words and images that sound and look like real news, but are not. This article considers certain kinds of fake news as a genre of digital folklore and attempts to sort out the differences among fake news hoaxes, pranks, satires, and parodies. It offers examples of each and tries to show how fake news functions as folk political commentary or folk media criticism
Newslore
When the going gets tough, the tough go photoshopping
The terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11 2001 inspired an outpouring of electronic folklore, particularly ‘photoshops’ (humorous digitally-altered photographs). This material is of two types. One, the newslore of vengeance, consists of fantasies of annihilation or humiliation aimed at Osama bin Laden or Afghanistan. The other, the newslore of victimization, expresses bewilderment at the role of fate or chance in who lived and di…
When Bad Things Happen in Good Places
An examination of big‐city newspaper coverage of violent crimes in small towns during a recent five‐year period reveals a remarkable degree of uniformity in the language reporters use to characterize life in these places. The cliches signal an underlying set of stereotypes of small‐town life: They are safe, close‐knit communities where bad things are “not supposed to happen.” Yet the point of the stories is that bad things do happen. Drawing upon…
Folklore in a Hurry
Personal experience narratives are staples of newspaper reporting. Though the stories are elicited, summarized, and retold in the third person as community experience narratives, they retain their power to make sense of experience and to bind readers into a symbolic community. This study examines coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco newspapers to explore some of the methodological and ethical issues that confront reporters and …
These Crowded Circumstances
Nobody likes pack journalism - not the reporters who are members of the pack, not the objects of the pack's attention and not the readers who deplore the pack's intrusiveness and obtrusiveness even as they stay with the coverage. To distance themselves from the pack, reporters have hit upon the curious rhetorical strategy of writing about it as if they were not a part of it. This article argues that this kind of distanced reflexivity is best unde…
The Making and Unmaking of a Folk Hero
Thanks to Ellie Nesler, God bless her, There's one less molester around. (Delacy and Cole 1994) Jamestown, Calif., April 2, 1993: I am twiddling my thumbs in the Tuolumne County bureau of the Modesto Bee, waiting for news to happen, when I hear traffic on the scanner about a shooting in the Jamestown court. I grab a camera and notebook and run down the street. Moments later, a woman in handcuffs, flanked by two sheriff's deputies, emerges from Ja…
Laboratory Outlines for Use in an Introductory Course in Somatology
Notes. And News
These Crowded Circumstances
Nobody likes pack journalism - not the reporters who are members of the pack, not the objects of the pack's attention and not the readers who deplore the pack's intrusiveness and obtrusiveness even as they stay with the coverage. To distance themselves from the pack, reporters have hit upon the curious rhetorical strategy of writing about it as if they were not a part of it. This article argues that this kind of distanced reflexivity is best unde…
Caveat Lector
We are awash in words and images that sound and look like real news, but are not. This article considers certain kinds of fake news as a genre of digital folklore and attempts to sort out the differences among fake news hoaxes, pranks, satires, and parodies. It offers examples of each and tries to show how fake news functions as folk political commentary or folk media criticism
When Bad Things Happen in Good Places
An examination of big‐city newspaper coverage of violent crimes in small towns during a recent five‐year period reveals a remarkable degree of uniformity in the language reporters use to characterize life in these places. The cliches signal an underlying set of stereotypes of small‐town life: They are safe, close‐knit communities where bad things are “not supposed to happen.” Yet the point of the stories is that bad things do happen. Drawing upon…
When the going gets tough, the tough go photoshopping
The terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11 2001 inspired an outpouring of electronic folklore, particularly ‘photoshops’ (humorous digitally-altered photographs). This material is of two types. One, the newslore of vengeance, consists of fantasies of annihilation or humiliation aimed at Osama bin Laden or Afghanistan. The other, the newslore of victimization, expresses bewilderment at the role of fate or chance in who lived and di…
Fake News vs. “Foke” News
This brief essay outlines the forms of fake news that arose in the journalism world in recent decades and shows how they eroded the credibility of mainstream news sources and created an opening for alternative news, including, ironically, fake news—which also takes many forms. In an attempt to distinguish fake news that is meant to deceive from fake news that is meant to amuse, the term “foke” news is proposed
The Making and Unmaking of a Folk Hero
Thanks to Ellie Nesler, God bless her, There's one less molester around. (Delacy and Cole 1994) Jamestown, Calif., April 2, 1993: I am twiddling my thumbs in the Tuolumne County bureau of the Modesto Bee, waiting for news to happen, when I hear traffic on the scanner about a shooting in the Jamestown court. I grab a camera and notebook and run down the street. Moments later, a woman in handcuffs, flanked by two sheriff's deputies, emerges from Ja…
Laboratory Outlines for Use in an Introductory Course in Somatology
Notes. And News
Notes. And News
Laboratory Outlines for Use in an Introductory Course in Somatology
The Making and Unmaking of a Folk Hero
Thanks to Ellie Nesler, God bless her, There's one less molester around. (Delacy and Cole 1994) Jamestown, Calif., April 2, 1993: I am twiddling my thumbs in the Tuolumne County bureau of the Modesto Bee, waiting for news to happen, when I hear traffic on the scanner about a shooting in the Jamestown court. I grab a camera and notebook and run down the street. Moments later, a woman in handcuffs, flanked by two sheriff's deputies, emerges from Ja…
When Bad Things Happen in Good Places
An examination of big‐city newspaper coverage of violent crimes in small towns during a recent five‐year period reveals a remarkable degree of uniformity in the language reporters use to characterize life in these places. The cliches signal an underlying set of stereotypes of small‐town life: They are safe, close‐knit communities where bad things are “not supposed to happen.” Yet the point of the stories is that bad things do happen. Drawing upon…
Folklore in a Hurry
Personal experience narratives are staples of newspaper reporting. Though the stories are elicited, summarized, and retold in the third person as community experience narratives, they retain their power to make sense of experience and to bind readers into a symbolic community. This study examines coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco newspapers to explore some of the methodological and ethical issues that confront reporters and …
These Crowded Circumstances
Nobody likes pack journalism - not the reporters who are members of the pack, not the objects of the pack's attention and not the readers who deplore the pack's intrusiveness and obtrusiveness even as they stay with the coverage. To distance themselves from the pack, reporters have hit upon the curious rhetorical strategy of writing about it as if they were not a part of it. This article argues that this kind of distanced reflexivity is best unde…
When the going gets tough, the tough go photoshopping
The terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11 2001 inspired an outpouring of electronic folklore, particularly ‘photoshops’ (humorous digitally-altered photographs). This material is of two types. One, the newslore of vengeance, consists of fantasies of annihilation or humiliation aimed at Osama bin Laden or Afghanistan. The other, the newslore of victimization, expresses bewilderment at the role of fate or chance in who lived and di…
Newslore
Caveat Lector
We are awash in words and images that sound and look like real news, but are not. This article considers certain kinds of fake news as a genre of digital folklore and attempts to sort out the differences among fake news hoaxes, pranks, satires, and parodies. It offers examples of each and tries to show how fake news functions as folk political commentary or folk media criticism
Fake News vs. “Foke” News
This brief essay outlines the forms of fake news that arose in the journalism world in recent decades and shows how they eroded the credibility of mainstream news sources and created an opening for alternative news, including, ironically, fake news—which also takes many forms. In an attempt to distinguish fake news that is meant to deceive from fake news that is meant to amuse, the term “foke” news is proposed
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