| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Theoretical approaches to disinformation. Disinformation matters : analyzing the academic production / Nereida Cea and Bella Palomo -- A materialist approach to fake news / Thales Lelo and Roseli Fígaro -- Using international relations theories to understand disinformation : soft power, narrative turns, and new wars / Giuseppe Anzera and Alessandra Massa -- Part II. Disinformation in politics. Do you believe in fake after all? WhatsApp disinformation campaign during the Brazilian 2018 presidential election / Rose Marie Santini, Giulia Tucci, Débora Salles, and Alda Rosana D. de Almeida -- The politics of disinformation in Indonesia (2014–2019) / Masduki -- Ideology and disinformation : how false news stories contributed to Brexit / Imke Henkel -- Spanish politicians dealing with fake news in the April 2019 general election / Germán Llorca-Abad, Guillermo López-García, and Lorena Cano-Orón -- Part III. Fact-checking in politics. Checking verifications : focus and scope of collaborative projects to monitor election campaigns in France, Brazil, and Spain / Dolors Palau-Sampio and Adolfo Carratalá -- Structures of resistance : citizen-generated reporting in times of social unrest / Tomás Dodds -- Robot strategies for combating disinformation in election campaigns : a fact-checking response from parties and organizations / Eva Campos-Domínguez, Cristina Renedo Farpón, Dafne Calvo, and María Díez-Garrido -- “That prodigious machinery designed to exclude” : the discourse of post-truth in algorithmic culture / Jakub Nowak -- Part IV. The effects of disinformation on everyday life. Teens, social media, and fake news : a user’s perspective / Heidi Mercenier, Victor Wiard, and Marie Dufrasne -- Understanding which factors promote exposure to online disinformation / Carlos Rodríguez-Pérez and Gustavo R. García-Vargas -- Rumoring, disinformation, and contentious politics in the digital age : the case of China and beyond / Jun Liu |
| Summary |
"Concerns about disinformation have witnessed extraordinary growth since the mid-2010s, despite the spread of false and distorted messages in the public arena not being a new phenomenon. In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary declared 'post-truth' as its word of the year, highlighting a historical and political time in which disinformation strategies reached new heights, fueled by the hybridization of the communicative ecosystem (Chadwick 2013) in a context of increasing polarization and populism. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 or the Brexit referendum the same year were milestones in the awareness of the role manipulative messages play and their effects on political decisions, particularly in times of crisis (Spence, Lachlan, Edwards, and Edwards 2016). Disinformation strategies take advantage of social networks to go viral quickly, and benefit from another of these networks' inherent characteristics: their ability to discriminate and stratify the public according to the most diverse criteria (Wagner and Boczkowski 2019). Any person or company with a sufficiently large and specialized database can now distribute content among the public according to multiple criteria, allowing much more to be known about their tastes, hobbies, opinions, etc. than in the past. In fact, public participation data on social networks (who they follow, in which groups they participate, what content they share, etc.) is one of the main elements that helps increase the effectiveness of the messages sent to the public. The snowball of disinformation can, in fact, feed itself and improve its effectiveness in each wave (Tucker et al. 2018)"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 23, 2021) |
| Subject |
Communication in politics.
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Fake news -- Political aspects
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Social media -- Corrupt practices
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Communication in politics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
López García, Guillermo, editor
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Palau-Sampio, Dolors, 1974- editor
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Palomo, Bella, 1974- editor.
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Campos Domínguez, Eva, editor.
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Masip, Pere, editor.
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| LC no. |
2020058487 |
| ISBN |
9781119743347 |
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1119743346 |
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9781119743323 |
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111974332X |
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1119743311 |
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9781119743316 |
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