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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| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2020]
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| 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.