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Subject(s)

• Common fallacies [Browse]
• Fake news [Browse]
• Information warfare [Browse]

Editor

• Information Resources Management Association [Browse]

Series

• Critical explorations (IGI Global) [More in this series]
• Critical explorations
• Gale eBooks

Summary note

"With the rise of fake news comes the need for research on the ways to alleviate the effects and prevent the spread of misinformation. These tools, technologies, and theories for identifying and mitigating the effects of fake news are a current research topic that is essential for maintaining the integrity of the media and providing those who consume it with accurate, fact-based information"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

System details

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Section 1. Fake news and understanding the spread of misinformation and its impact on society. Chapter 1. An empirically supported taxonomy of misinformation ; Chapter 2. "Ridiculous and untrue FAKE NEWS!": the impact of labeling fake news ; Chapter 3. Understanding the landscape of online deception ; Chapter 4. The fundamental roles of technology in the spread of fake news ; Chapter 5. Fake online news: rethinking news credibility for the changing media environment ; Chapter 6. Reconstructing diffusion model for virality detection in news spread networks ; Chapter 7. The impact of social media on knowledge culture ; Chapter 8. Navigating an immersive narratology: factors to explain the reception of fake news ; Chapter 9. Exercise of citizenship in network society: cyberactivism and the fight against fake news in the Brazilian context ; Chapter 10. Role of social media in terrorism crisis communication: a case of Westgate Mall terror attack in Nairobi
• Section 2. Media manipulation and using fakes news for information and political warfare. Chapter 11. The increase of how mass media coverage manipulates our minds ; Chapter 12. The biased media and their utilization of propaganda: the true obstructionists of world events and our minds ; Chapter 13. Fake news and information warfare: an examination of the political and psychological processes from the digital sphere to the real world ; Chapter 14. Information influence in hybrid environment: reflexive control as an analytical tool for understanding warfare in social media ; Chapter 15. Populism, fake news, and the flight from democracy ; Chapter 16. Saving democracy: populism, deception, and e-participation ; Chapter 17. Social media as disruptive technologies in an era of fake news: examining the efficacy of social media in the shaping of the political landscape in Africa ; Chapter 18. Trolls, bots, and whatnots: deceptive content, deception detection, and deception suppression ; Chapter 19. Political campaign communication in the information age: some difficulties with basic concepts ; Chapter 20. Russian information warfare and 9/11 conspiracism: when fake news meets false prophecy ; Chapter 21. Framing American politicians through photo manipulation: a "structuralist" reading of vanguard, punch, and nigeriana news ; Chapter 22. Fake news, hate speech and Nigeria's struggle for democratic consolidation: a conceptual review
• Section 3. Technological solutions, responsible consumption, and improving media literacy. Chapter 23. An overview (and criticism) of methods to detect fake content online ; Chapter 24. Mutual understanding in the age of vulnerable truth ; Chapter 25. Fake news detection using deep learning: supervised fake news detection analysis in social media with semantic similarity method ; Chapter 26. Rumor detection on Twitter using a supervised machine learning framework ; Chapter 27. Combating fake news online: Turkish fact-checking services ; Chapter 28. Online decision making: online influence and implications for cyber security ; Chapter 29. Using argumentation to develop critical thinking about social issues in the classroom: a dialogic model of critical thinking education ; Chapter 30. Perception is (as) reality ; Chapter 31. News credibility and media literacy in the digital age ; Chapter 32. Media literacy in higher education environments: an introduction ; Chapter 33. Media literacy education in the era of post-truth: paradigm crisis ; Chapter 34. Using social media to enhance information literacy: the VCU libraries vetyoursources campaign ; Chapter 35. Trump fakenews notmypresident: assessing first-time voters of color.

Other format(s)

Also available in print.

ISBN

9781799872924 (ebook)

OCLC

1204266391

Doi

• 10.4018/978-1-7998-7291-7

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