The databases used for these searches were Sage Premier and the Communication & Mass Media Complete database from EBSCO Host. 

Three Advanced Searches:

Communication & Mass Media Complete database from EBSCO Host:

•  “Journalism ethics AND social media”
  • Limited results were only Full Text and Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.
  • 65 total results

• “Media trust AND journalism”
  • Limited results were only Full Text and Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.
  • 64 total results

Sage Premier:

• “Citizen journalist AND professional journalism AND credibility”
  • Limited results were within the Journalism category in the database, only content I have access to and between 2015 and 2021.
  • 197 total results

    

Two New Sources:

(“Citizen journalist AND professional journalism AND credibility”)

• Veenstra, A. S., Iyer, N., Park, C. S., & Alajmi, F. (2015). Twitter as “a journalistic substitute”? Examining #wiunion tweeters’ behavior and self-perception. Journalism, 16(4), 488–504. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884914521580
• Subject terms: Citizen journalism, Twitter, protest mobilization, Wisconsin protests, labor, credibility

(“Journalism ethics AND social media”)

• Franklin, B. (2014). The future of journalism. Journalism Studies, 15(5), 481–499. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2014.930254
• Subject terms: Journalism, Journalistic ethics,  Social media

Annotation:

( “Media trust AND journalism”)

Schapals, A. K. (2018). Fake news. Journalism Practice, 12(8), 976–985. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2018.1511822

This study finds how professional journalists perceive their roles in a time that factual accounts of current events are questionable and untrue. Semi-structured interviews were done with journalists and editors, which uncovered their concern for future media trust and journalism, which might be losing its title and credibility as the watchdogs of media. The goal of this source is to see the side of journalists on the issue of fake news. It is worth noting that this study used journalists based in London and Sydney rather than the United States.  This source is helpful to my research because it shows that professional journalists realize that social media and advertising are being used as vessels for fake news, hurting journalistic credibility. This study shows the global effect of fake news and credibility-loss in journalism since the interviewees are in the UK.

Subject terms: Fake news, Journalism, Journalists, Pessimism, Common misconceptions, United States presidential election, 2016