[PDF] The Distortion Of Facts In The Digital Age eBook

The Distortion Of Facts In The Digital Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Distortion Of Facts In The Digital Age book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

The Distortion of Facts in the Digital Age

Author : Larry Gerber
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 144888375X

GET BOOK

Explains what disinformation is, why and how people distort facts, the difference between fact and opinion, and how to deal with the distortion of facts in online information.

Fake News

Author : Melissa Zimdars
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262538369

GET BOOK

New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news. What is fake news? Is it an item on Breitbart, an article in The Onion, an outright falsehood disseminated via Russian bot, or a catchphrase used by a politician to discredit a story he doesn't like? This book examines the real fake news: the constant flow of purposefully crafted, sensational, emotionally charged, misleading or totally fabricated information that mimics the form of mainstream news. Rather than viewing fake news through a single lens, the book maps the various kinds of misinformation through several different disciplinary perspectives, taking into account the overlapping contexts of politics, technology, and journalism. The contributors consider topics including fake news as “disorganized” propaganda; folkloric falsehood in the “Pizzagate” conspiracy; native advertising as counterfeit news; the limitations of regulatory reform and technological solutionism; Reddit's enabling of fake news; the psychological mechanisms by which people make sense of information; and the evolution of fake news in America. A section on media hoaxes and satire features an oral history of and an interview with prankster-activists the Yes Men, famous for parodies that reveal hidden truths. Finally, contributors consider possible solutions to the complex problem of fake news—ways to mitigate its spread, to teach students to find factually accurate information, and to go beyond fact-checking. Contributors Mark Andrejevic, Benjamin Burroughs, Nicholas Bowman, Mark Brewin, Elizabeth Cohen, Colin Doty, Dan Faltesek, Johan Farkas, Cherian George, Tarleton Gillespie, Dawn R. Gilpin, Gina Giotta, Theodore Glasser, Amanda Ann Klein, Paul Levinson, Adrienne Massanari, Sophia A. McClennen, Kembrew McLeod, Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Paul Mihailidis, Benjamin Peters, Whitney Phillips, Victor Pickard, Danielle Polage, Stephanie Ricker Schulte, Leslie-Jean Thornton, Anita Varma, Claire Wardle, Melissa Zimdars, Sheng Zou

Misinformation in the Digital Age

Author : Monica Stephens
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,95 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781789904901

GET BOOK

Using a geographic lens to examine the adoption and dissemination of, and attention to 'fake news', this timely and important book explores how misinformation in the digital age calls attention to the multiple geographic dimensions of online fictions, conspiracy theories and political disinformation. Chapters delve into how social and digital media have rescaled and disrupted relations of trust and authority in the (mis)information age. The book draws on quantitative data and qualitative cases to shed light on the geographies of misinformation, covering urban legends, political rumors, information weaponization, and Climategate, as well as trade and financial fictions. The book explores in depth climate change misinformation, conspiracy theories and other critical contemporary events such as Pizzagate, Russian-led overseas political interference campaigns, and Cambridge Analytica. Geography and environmental studies scholars will benefit from the analysis of the denial of global climate change and geographic lens the book uses. It will also be an important read for practitioners and policy makers looking for a helpful reference summarizing interdisciplinary work on misinformation in accessible prose.

Combating Fake News in the Digital Age

Author : Joanna M. Burkhardt
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic information resource literacy
ISBN : 9780838959916

GET BOOK

"This issue of Library Technology Reports is for librarians who serve all age levels and who can help by teaching users both that they need to be aware and how to be aware of fake news. Library instruction in how to avoid fake news, how to identify fake news, and how to stop fake news will be essential."--Abstract.

The Art of Fact in the Digital Age

Author : Jacqueline Marino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

GET BOOK

The Art of Fact in the Digital Age is a showcase of the most powerful and moving journalism of the past 25 years. Selections include stories originally published in established bastions of literary journalism (The New York Times, The Atlantic and The New Yorker), as well as those from specialized and online publications (Runner's World, The Atavist). It features writers of extraordinary style (including Carina del Valle Schorske, Brian Phillips, and Jia Tolentino), as well as those who have profoundly influenced public discourse on the 21st century's most urgent issues: Mitchell S. Jackson, Clint Smith, and Ta-Nehisi Coates on race; Susan Dominus and Luke Mogelson on migration; and Kathryn Schulz and David Wallace-Wells on environmental threats. It even includes one story that expanded literary journalism's repertoire into audio (This American Life). This collection, assembled for students, scholars, and practitioners alike, also charts the evolution of digital longform journalism through its greatest achievements, from transitioning readers to screens to the integration of multimedia with words in service of meaning. The art of fact in the 21st century opened new ranges of expression to address such issues, while uniquely bearing the imprint of their generation's digital cultures and technologies. Although many forces compete for attention in the digital age, story triumphs. The works in this anthology show us why.

The Disinformation Age

Author : W. Lance Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108843050

GET BOOK

This book shows how disinformation spread by partisan organizations and media platforms undermines institutional legitimacy on which authoritative information depends.

Misinformation in the Digital Age

Author : Monica Stephens
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789904897

GET BOOK

Utilising a geographic lens to examine the adoption and dissemination of, and attention to ‘fake news’, this timely and important book explores how misinformation in the digital age calls attention to the multiple geographic dimensions of online fictions, conspiracy theories and political disinformation.

The Digital Dilemma

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 0309064996

GET BOOK

Imagine sending a magazine article to 10 friends-making photocopies, putting them in envelopes, adding postage, and mailing them. Now consider how much easier it is to send that article to those 10 friends as an attachment to e-mail. Or to post the article on your own site on the World Wide Web. The ease of modifying or copying digitized material and the proliferation of computer networking have raised fundamental questions about copyright and patentâ€"intellectual property protections rooted in the U.S. Constitution. Hailed for quick and convenient access to a world of material, the Internet also poses serious economic issues for those who create and market that material. If people can so easily send music on the Internet for free, for example, who will pay for music? This book presents the multiple facets of digitized intellectual property, defining terms, identifying key issues, and exploring alternatives. It follows the complex threads of law, business, incentives to creators, the American tradition of access to information, the international context, and the nature of human behavior. Technology is explored for its ability to transfer content and its potential to protect intellectual property rights. The book proposes research and policy recommendations as well as principles for policymaking.

Blogger or Journalist? Evaluating What Is the Press in the Digital Age

Author : Tracy Brown
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1448883741

GET BOOK

From the Introduction: The days of relying on the newspaper delivery boy to deliver information to households are long over. The Internet and mobile phone technologies have changed how information is gathered and delivered in ways that can't be overstated. They have allowed people worldwide to gather, share, and access news as it's happening. The Internet and sites such as Facebook and YouTube have made it possible for anyone to reach a broad, global audience and for anyone with a computer to be a news provider. There is an enormous amount of content available online, on just about any topic. Viewers and readers must weed through this information to find sources that they trust and that they can rely on, in the same way that people read their daily paper or watch their favorite television news broadcast. The difference is the people who write for newspapers or television news are journalists-people whose job it is to research and deliver news to the public. When you go online, you find content from lots of different people, many of whom are not actual journalists, but interested citizens who want to share information with the public, much like journalists do. These non-journalists include writers of blogs and producers of independent news stories-people who are not working for official media outlets like established news channels or publications. Here, we will look at the differences between journalists and this new breed of news providers. We will discuss what professional standards journalists must follow that bloggers are not bound to, as well as what laws protect journalists but do not offer the same protection for non-journalists. Also discussed will be the roles different types of news providers serve in society, and how our definition of journalism is changing. The purpose is to help consumers of online news better understand where the news they read is coming from, what news they can trust, how to tell the difference between fact and opinion, and how to put together everything they read to form their own ideas about current events-and then perhaps even to share their ideas in their own online publications or blogs.

E-Democracy – Safeguarding Democracy and Human Rights in the Digital Age

Author : Sokratis Katsikas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3030375455

GET BOOK

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on E-Democracy, E-Democracy 2019, held in Athens, Greece, in December 2019. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 27 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on rrivacy and data protection; e-government; e-voting and forensics; online social networks and "fake news".