"It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies -- from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics -- seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thin…
"It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies -- from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics -- seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thin…
The online world we inhabit represents only a small fraction of the internet. Beyond Google and commercial web browsers lies a parallel universe: a 'deep web' twenty-five times larger than the surface web we know; a world of private chat rooms, second lives, anonymous markets an…
Presents an examination of the internet, and of its subcultures: trolls and pornographers, drug dealers and hackers, political extremists and computer scientists, Bitcoin programmers and self-harmers, libertarians and vigilantes.
"A novel analysis of social media network manipulation that shows how everyday users can limit the spread of harmful, misleading, and objectively false information"--
"A novel analysis of social media network manipulation that shows how everyday users can limit the spread of harmful, misleading, and objectively false information"--
"A novel analysis of social media network manipulation that shows how everyday users can limit the spread of harmful, misleading, and objectively false information"
"A novel analysis of social media network manipulation that shows how everyday users can limit the spread of harmful, misleading, and objectively false information"--
"A novel analysis of social media network manipulation that shows how everyday users can limit the spread of harmful, misleading, and objectively false information"
"How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically. Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, se…
"A novel analysis of social media network manipulation that shows how everyday users can limit the spread of harmful, misleading, and objectively false information"--
Introduction: Information Pathologies -- Bad Actors -- Platforms -- Audiences -- Countermeasures -- Conclusion: Post-Truth Communication. "Drawing on research from multiple disciplines and international case studies, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date understandi…
Introduction: Information Pathologies -- Bad Actors -- Platforms -- Audiences -- Countermeasures -- Conclusion: Post-Truth Communication.
"Drawing on research from multiple disciplines and international case studies, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of online disinformation and its potential countermeasures. Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media presents a model of the dis…