Description
| Product ID: | 9783631812211 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Title: | Information Nightmare: Fake News, Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics in the Digital Age |
| Authors: | Author: Tirse Erbaysal Filibeli |
| Page Count: | 210 |
| Subjects: | Media studies, Media studies, Political structures: democracy, Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides, Political structures: democracy, Digital lifestyle |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Major aspects of this book consist of information disorder, fact-checking and fake news debates, algorithmic manipulation that harms democracy, spread of disinformation, populist rhetoric within the post-truth politics and digital media literacy. Today, we live in a post-truth era. Creating alternative realities, and making people believe fake realities become easier. Digital platforms tend to promote dramatic, sensational and emotional content that harms democracy. This book examines different aspects of the matter: rise of populist politics, impact of digital social platforms, engagement-oriented algorithms, spread of disinformation and counter-measures like fact-checking mechanism and developing digital media literacy skills.
"Journalists, academics and civil society groups are increasingly working together to help people confront the confusion caused by the post-truth realities of digital communications, which is no longer the stuff of propaganda from the state, but comes from all sides of the internet. In this information space every fact is challenged by an alternative fact, and all of these different versions of the truth look the same online." – Aidan White |
| Imprint Name: | Peter Lang AG |
| Publisher Name: | Peter Lang AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-04-06 |
