Optimising emotions, incubating falsehoods : how to protect the global civic body from disinformation and misinformation / Vian Bakir and Andrew Mcstay.
"This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider wh...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2022 English/International |
| Summary: | "This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a rich, empirical, and interdisciplinary literature that examines multiple countries, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of Communications, Journalism, Politics, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Information Science, as well as global and local policymakers and ordinary citizens interested in how to prevent the spread of false information worldwide, both now and in the future."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3031135512 9783031135514 3031135504 9783031135507 |