Media, technology and education in a post-truth society : from fake news, datafication and mass surveillance to the death of trust
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the impact of media, emerging technologies, and education on the resilience of the so-called post-truth society. This book explores if a return to civic participation, enhanced critical media literacy, journalism for the public good, techno-interv...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
[2021]
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| Series | Digital activism and society.
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781800439085 |
| DOI | 10.1108/9781800439061 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (334 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- chapter 1. Introduction / Alex Grech
- part 1. Repurposing education for the post-truth society: chapter 2. Post-truth society : toward a dialogical understanding of truth / John P. Portelli and Soudeh Oladi. chapter 3. Macro authorities and micro literacies : the new terrain of information politics / Bryan Alexander. chapter 4. The learning challenge in the 21st century / Harry Anthony Patrinos. chapter 5. The pre-truth era in MENA, news ecology and critical news literacy / Abeer Al-Najjar. chapter 6. Critical literacy is at the heart of an answer / Emma Pauncefort. chapter 7. Societal reorientation via programmable trust : a case for piloting new models of open governance in education / Walter Fernando Balser, Steve Diasio and Taylor Kendal
- part 2. Repurposing media for the post-truth society: chapter 8. Fact to fake : the media world as it was and is today / Michael Bugeja. chapter 9. Post-news journalism in the post-enlightenment era / Hossein Derakhshan. chapter 10. How can Wikipedia save us all? : assuming good faith from all points of view in the age of fake news and post-truth / Toni Sant. chapter 11. Public rebuttal, reflection and responsibility, or, An inconvenient answer to fake news / Ruben Brave. chapter 12. The Kony 2012 campaign : a milestone of visual storytelling for social engagement / Massimiliano Fusari. chapter 13. Post-truth visuals, untruth visuals / Gorg Mallia. chapter 14. Reflections on the visual truth and war photography : a historian's perspective / Anna Topolska. chapter 15. It is time for journalists to save journalism / Lina Zuluaga and Phillip Long
- part 3. Future-proofing for the post-truth society. chapter 16. Karl Marx and the blockchain / Devraj Basu and Murdoch J. Gabbay. chapter 17. Two sides to every story : the truth, post-truth, and the blockchain truth / Joshua Ellul, Alex Grech, and Gordon Pace. chapter 18. Decentralised verification technologies and the web / Allan Third and John Domingue. chapter 19. How do we know what is true? / Natalie Smolenksi. chapter 20. Social technologies and their unplanned obsolescence / Daniel Hughes.