"This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th to the 21st century, including hoaxes perpetrated via newspapers, radio, television and cyberspace. It explores hoaxes that highlight the impact of the media on our lives and its tendency to sensatio…
"When award-winning journalist Nick Davies decided to break Fleet Street's unwritten rule by investigating his own colleagues, he found that the business of reporting the truth had been slowly subverted by the mass production of ignorance." "Working with a network of sources, Da…
Bringing together both leading international scholars and emerging academic talent, Media Accountability in the Era of Post-Truth Politics maps the current state of media accountability in Europe and provides fresh perspectives for future developments in media and communication …
"Journalism, Power, and Investigation presents a contemporary, trans-national analysis of investigative journalism. Beginning with a detailed introduction that examines the relationship between this form of public communication and normative conceptions of democracy, the book of…
Spätestens anlässlich der Wahl von Trump und der Brexit-Abstimmung ist die Frage virulent, ob demokratische Gesellschaften zunehmend davon bestimmt werden, dass die öffentliche Meinung weniger von der Realität der Fakten als vielmehr von subjektiven Einschätzungen und Emotionen …
Election day -- Reckless disregard -- Mystery mail and the box in the courthouse -- Tax day -- Day of the gaggle -- US vs. us -- The leaks police -- The don of defamation -- Fake fake news -- Insecure -- Weinstein et Co -- Alice in FOIA-land -- A world of trouble -- One morning …
"When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing compute…
People are used to seeing "fake physics" in science fiction – concepts like faster-than-light travel, antigravity and time travel to name a few. The fiction label ought to be a giveaway, but some SF writers – especially those with a background in professional science – are so ad…
Part I: State-of-the-art -- Online Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques: A Systematic Mapping Study -- Using Artificial Intelligence against the Phenomenon of Fake News: a Systematic Literature Review -- Fake news detection in internet using deep learning: A rev…
