| Description |
1 online resource (182 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Introduction: Digital Cultures and Fake News -- Chapter 2. What is Fake News? Defining Truth -- Chapter 3. The Cultural Emergence of Fake News I: Digital Cultures, Interactive Practices and Artificial Feeds -- Chapter 4. The Cultural Emergence of Fake News II: Postmodernism, Sensationalism and the Hyperreal -- Chapter 5. The Visual in an Era of Hyperreality and Disinformation: The Deepfake Video -- Chapter 6. Fake News and Conspiracy Theories -- Chapter 7. Marginalising the Marginalised: Fake News as a Tool of Populist Power -- Chapter 8. Audiences, Trust and Polarisation in a Post-Truth Media Ecology -- Chapter 9. Remedying Disinformation: Communication Practice in a World of Fake News -- Chapter 10. Ethical Practices, Digital Citizenship and Communication Futures |
| Summary |
Fake News in Digital Cultures presents a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication, arguing that fake news is not an alien phenomenon undertaken by bad actors, but a logical outcome of contemporary digital and popular culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-176) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2022) |
| Subject |
Fake news.
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Digital media.
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Digital media -- Political aspects
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Media studies.
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Social Science -- Media Studies.
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Digital media
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Digital media -- Political aspects
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Fake news
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Nieuws
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Nep nieuws.
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Informatiemaatschappij,
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Haw, Ashleigh, author.
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Thompson, Jay Daniel, author.
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| ISBN |
9781801178761 |
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1801178763 |
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9781801178785 |
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180117878X |
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