• Journalism and source criticism: Revised approaches to assessing truth-claims 

      Steensen, Steen; Belair-Gagnon, Valerie; Graves, Lucas; Kalsnes, Bente; Westlund, Oscar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This article presents a hermeneutical epistemology for the assessment and production of truth-claims in journalism. This epistemology is based on Gadamer’s functional hermeneutics, and it advances the concept of source ...
    • Journalism’s epistemic crisis and its solution: Disinformation, datafication and source criticism 

      Steensen, Steen (Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism;Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-12-10)
      Journalism in many cultures is today in an epistemic crisis. The mains drivers of this crisis are discourses of disinformation and the general datafication of society, which combined render dubious the ways in which ...