Fake news in digital cultures : technology, populism and digital misinformation

Fake News in Digital Cultures presents a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication, arguing that fake news is not an alien phenomenon undertaken by bad actors, but a logical outcome of contemporary digital and popular culture, conceptual ch...

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Main Authors Cover, Rob (Author), Haw, Ashleigh (Author), Thompson, Jay Daniel (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Subjects
Fake news.
Digital media.
Digital media > Political aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781801178785
DOI10.1108/9781801178761
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 182 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Digital Cultures and Fake News
  • Chapter 2. What is Fake News? Defining Truth
  • Chapter 3. The Cultural Emergence of Fake News I: Digital Cultures, Interactive Practices and Artificial Feeds
  • Chapter 4. The Cultural Emergence of Fake News II: Postmodernism, Sensationalism and the Hyperreal
  • Chapter 5. The Visual in an Era of Hyperreality and Disinformation: The Deepfake Video
  • Chapter 6. Fake News and Conspiracy Theories
  • Chapter 7. Marginalising the Marginalised: Fake News as a Tool of Populist Power
  • Chapter 8. Audiences, Trust and Polarisation in a Post-Truth Media Ecology
  • Chapter 9. Remedying Disinformation: Communication Practice in a World of Fake News
  • Chapter 10. Ethical Practices, Digital Citizenship and Communication Futures.

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