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The media environment is very complex, and so this chapter is about navigating our way through the intersecting contexts that impact any educational response to fake news or misinformation. This book is an attempt to draw breath, certainly, by working with the established overarching framework for Media Studies, cutting across all specifications, levels, age groups and degrees of specialism, applied to the current moral panic over fake news. This framework, then, is our first key context for what follows

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McDougall, J. (2019). Contexts. In: Fake News vs Media Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27220-3_2

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