Black communication in the age of disinformation : deepfakes and synthetic media /

This book is timely in our era of deep fakes and misinformation. It is especially necessary from the context of the Global South as democracy can get squeezed out as extremes and binary oppositions take center stage in the social media age. Glenda Daniels, Wits University, Johannesburg DeepFakes and...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Langmia, Kehbuma (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Subjects:	Black people > Communication. Misinformation. Deepfakes > Social aspects. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Of Deepfakes, Misinformation, and Disinformation
Chapter 2: The African Youth and Social Media at the Crossroads of Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation
Chapter 3: Artificial Intelligence for Social Evil: Exploring How AI and Beauty Filters Perpetuates Colorism Lessons Learned From A Colorism Giant, Brazil
Chapter 4: DeepFakes as Misinformation: The Next Frontier of Sports Fandom
Chapter 5: The influence of Social media use in the wake of deepfakes on Kenyan female University students perceptions on sexism, their body image and participation in politics
Chapter 6: The ogre and the griot: Culturally embedded communicative approaches addressing deep fake COVID19 narratives and hyperrealities in Kenya
Chapter 7: The Medium is the Massage/Message: Functions of Synthetic Media in Sense-Making Conditions
Chapter 8: Deepfakes: Future of Sports and Questioning Video Evidence
Chapter 9: Examining the role of KOT in Reinforcing Organizations Voices against Misinformation in Kenya
Chapter 10: Akata night masquerade: A semblance of online deepfakes in African traditional communication systems.