Vol. 14 No. 27 (2019): Number with Special Issue

SPECIAL ISSUE

Disinformation, Journalism and Business Models

EDITOR

Suzana Cavaco, CITCEM – Faculty of Economics, University of Porto

To engage in democracy, citizens need access to relevant, truthful, and diverse information. The social responsibility of the press – a concept introduced in 1947 by the Hutchins Commission – is based on the fundamental right to inform and be informed. Journalists play a socially recognized role in constructing reality. This is a "symbolic power": an "invisible," "almost magical" power "to make see and make believe, to confirm or transform the view of the world and, thus, action on the world, therefore the world" (Bourdieu, 1989). In the 1990s, Bourdieu (1997) criticized journalists for effectively monopolizing the instruments of information dissemination on a large scale, against which cultural producers clashed...