Fake news! : misinformation in the media /

Whether used as a political tactic to discredit news stories and media outlets, or as a description of false information manufactured and circulated for profit, the term "fake news" holds a particularly caustic sway in twenty first century society. A frequent subject of cable news broadcas...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grimm, Josh, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Series:Media & public affairs.
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Table of Contents:
  • History of Fake News / Josh Grimm
  • Fake News: A Usable History / John Maxwell Hamilton and Heidi Tworek
  • Not Your Grandpa's Hoax: A Comparative History of Fake News / Julien Gorbach
  • From Early Modern Moon Hoaxes to Nazi Propaganda: A Brief Anthology of Fake News / Heidi Tworek and John Maxwell Hamilton
  • The Impact and Future of Fake News / Josh Grimm
  • Connecting Partisan Selective Exposure and Fake News / Jacob L. Nelson
  • Can Media Literacy Reduce Biases in Beliefs about Susceptibility to Fake News? A Survey Experiment / Tryfon Boukouvidis, Pamela Labbe, and Michael Henderson
  • Miley, CNN, and the Onion: When Fake News Becomes Realer than Real / Dan Berkowitz and David Asa Schwartz
  • Fighting Falsity: Fake News, Facebook, and the First Amendment / Joel Timmer
  • Potato Chips, Botulism, and Carbon Monoxide: The Lying-Bullshitting Distinction in Fake News / Fred Vultee
  • The Self-Radicalization of White Men: Fake News and the Affective Networking of Paranoia / Jessica Johnson
  • Conclusion / Josh Grimm.