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The Misinformation Age

Author : Cailin O'Connor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300241003
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Misinformation Age written by Cailin O'Connor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy.” —Kirkus Reviews Editors’ choice, The New York Times Book Review Recommended reading, Scientific American Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false beliefs. It might seem that there’s an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that’s right, then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they believe true things or not? The Misinformation Age, written for a political era riven by “fake news,” “alternative facts,” and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, shows convincingly that what you believe depends on who you know. If social forces explain the persistence of false belief, we must understand how those forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively. “[The authors] deftly apply sociological models to examine how misinformation spreads among people and how scientific results get misrepresented in the public sphere.” —Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American “A notable new volume . . . The Misinformation Age explains systematically how facts are determined and changed—whether it is concerning the effects of vaccination on children or the Russian attack on the integrity of the electoral process.” —Roger I. Abrams, New York Journal of Books

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Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Summary of Cailin O'Connor & James Owen Weatherall's The Misinformation Age written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-07T22:59:00Z with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Vegetable Lamb was a myth that persisted for centuries, despite being debunked by several leading naturalists. It is still felt today among some that certain foods can cause cancer. -> The Vegetable Lamb was a myth that persisted for centuries, despite being debunked by several leading naturalists. #2 Pope Endorses Trump. -> On September 26, 2016, about six weeks before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, a website called ETF News posted a story with the headline Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President, Releases Statement. The article was shared or liked on Facebook 960,000 times. #3 This is a book about how people believe things that just aren’t true, and how that belief can persist, spread, and impact the world. -> This may sound like a truism, but it is important to remember that our beliefs about the world affect how we make decisions every day. For example, do you eat sushi while pregnant. That depends on whether you believe that the omega-3 fatty acids in fish will promote your baby’s brain development or not. #4 Beliefs matter in many ways, and people’s beliefs affect their decisions and the world around them. Not all beliefs are created equal: some are false, and some are true. But all of them have the potential to persist and spread, even if they are not based on any personal experience whatsoever.

Metasemantics and Intersectionality in the Misinformation Age

Author : Derek Egan Anderson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030733394
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Book Synopsis Metasemantics and Intersectionality in the Misinformation Age by : Derek Egan Anderson

Download or read book Metasemantics and Intersectionality in the Misinformation Age written by Derek Egan Anderson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role of truth in political struggle. It develops a theory of objective truth for political controversy over topics such as racism and gender, based on the insights of intersectionality, the Black feminist theory of interlocking systems of oppression. Truth is defined using the tools of model theory and formal semantics, but the theory also captures how social power dynamics strongly influence the operation of the concept of truth within the social fabric. Systemic ignorance, propagated through false speech and misinformation, sustains oppressive power structures and perpetuates systemic inequity. Truth tends to empower marginalized groups precisely because oppressive systems are maintained through systemic ignorance. If the truth sets people free, then power will work to obscure it. Hence, the rise of misinformation as a political weapon is a strategy of dominant power to undermine the political advancement of marginalized groups.

A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age

Author : David J. Helfand
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541023
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age written by David J. Helfand and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning how to tell news from fake news from fake fake news: An “important and timely” book on protecting ourselves, and society, from the infodemic (Library Journal). We have billions of bytes of data at our fingertips. But how much of it is misinformation—or even disinformation? A lot of it is, and your search engine can’t tell the difference. As a result, an avalanche of misinformation threatens to overwhelm the discourse we so desperately need to address complex social problems such as climate change, the food and water crises, biodiversity collapse, and emerging threats to public health. This book provides an inoculation against the misinformation epidemic by cultivating scientific habits of mind. Anyone can do it—indeed, everyone must do it if our species is to survive on this crowded and finite planet. This survival guide supplies an essential set of apps for the prefrontal cortex while making science both accessible and entertaining. It will dissolve your fear of numbers, demystify graphs, and elucidate the key concepts of probability, all while celebrating the precise use of language and logic. David Helfand, one of our nation’s leading astronomers and science educators, has taught scientific habits of mind to generations in the classroom, where he continues to wage a provocative battle against sloppy thinking and the encroachment of misinformation. “Provides a vital antidote to the ills of misinformation by teaching systematic and rigorous scientific reasoning.” —The Times Literary Supplement

A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age

Author : David J. Helfand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231168731
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age written by David J. Helfand and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book inoculates readers against the misinformation epidemic by cultivating scientific habits of mind. From dissolving our fear of numbers and demystifying graphs to elucidating the key concepts of probability and the use of precise language and logic, David J. Helfand wages a provocative battle against sloppy thinking while making science both accessible and entertaining."--Back cover.

Metasemantics and Intersectionality in the Misinformation Age

Author : Derek Egan Anderson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030733384
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (333 download)

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Book Synopsis Metasemantics and Intersectionality in the Misinformation Age by : Derek Egan Anderson

Download or read book Metasemantics and Intersectionality in the Misinformation Age written by Derek Egan Anderson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role of truth in political struggle. It develops a theory of objective truth for political controversy over topics such as racism and gender, based on the insights of intersectionality, the Black feminist theory of interlocking systems of oppression. Truth is defined using the tools of model theory and formal semantics, but the theory also captures how social power dynamics strongly influence the operation of the concept of truth within the social fabric. Systemic ignorance, propagated through false speech and misinformation, sustains oppressive power structures and perpetuates systemic inequity. Truth tends to empower marginalized groups precisely because oppressive systems are maintained through systemic ignorance. If the truth sets people free, then power will work to obscure it. Hence, the rise of misinformation as a political weapon is a strategy of dominant power to undermine the political advancement of marginalized groups.

The Disinformation Age

Author : Eric Cheyfitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351839071
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Disinformation Age written by Eric Cheyfitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disinformation Age, beginning in the present and going back to the American colonial period, constructs an original historical explanation for the current political crisis and the reasons the two major political parties cannot address it effectively. Commentators inside and outside academia have described this crisis with various terms — income inequality, the disappearance of the middle-class, the collapse of the two-party system, and the emergence of a corporate oligarchy. While this book uses such terminology, it uniquely provides a unifying explanation for the current state of the union by analyzing the seismic rupture of political rhetoric from political reality used within discussion of these issues. In advancing this analysis, the book provides a term for this rupture, Disinformation, which it defines not as planned propaganda but as the inevitable failure of the language of American Exceptionalism to correspond to actual history, even as the two major political parties continue to deploy this language. Further, in its final chapter this book provides a way out of this political cul-de-sac, what it terms "the limits of capitalism’s imagination," by "thinking from a different place" that is located in the theory and practice of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

The Disinformation Age

Author : W. Lance Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108843050
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Disinformation Age written by W. Lance Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how disinformation spread by partisan organizations and media platforms undermines institutional legitimacy on which authoritative information depends.

Education in the Age of Misinformation

Author : Lana Parker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031258711
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Education in the Age of Misinformation written by Lana Parker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines the implications of misinformation and youth digital life in a new information environment. This new information environment is characterized by high levels of user engagement, hidden algorithmic manipulations, and information abundance, including misinformation and disinformation. While misinformation and disinformation in the post-truth era have been previously investigated, this edited volume offers a distinctive educational focus that scholars have not yet addressed. Chapters contribute to the ongoing discussion of the role of education in democracies while uniquely contextualizing the problem of misinformation as a pedagogical opportunity. Contributions from across the globe answer the question of how education might respond to the changing information environment through engagements with educational philosophy, democracy, and everyday practices of teaching and learning. The book adds to a growing body of work exploring what it means to engage in responsive, rather than reactive or stagnant, pedagogy.

Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation

Author : Leslie F. Stebbins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538163152
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation written by Leslie F. Stebbins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides strategies for building back truth online. It provides solutions so that we can repair our existing social media platforms and build better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information"--

Political Theory of the Digital Age

Author : Mathias Risse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009255215
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Political Theory of the Digital Age written by Mathias Risse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how artificial intelligence might influence our political practices and ideas, and how we should respond.

The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation

Author : Karen Fowler-Watt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031119762
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation written by Karen Fowler-Watt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge resource on the critical debates surrounding fake news and misinformation online. Spanning all continents and linking academic, journalistic, and educational communities, this collection offers authoritative coverage of conspiracy theories, the post-Trump and Brexit landscape, and the role of big tech in threats to democracy and free speech. The collection moves through a diagnosis of misinformation and its impacts on democracy and civic societies, the 'mainstreaming' of conspiracy theory, the impacts of misinformation on health and science, and the increasing significance of data visualization. Following these diagnoses, the handbook moves to responses from two communities of practice – the world of journalism and the field of media literacy.

Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World

Author : Dalkir, Kimiz
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799825450
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World written by Dalkir, Kimiz and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current day and age, objective facts have less influence on opinions and decisions than personal emotions and beliefs. Many individuals rely on their social networks to gather information thanks to social media’s ability to share information rapidly and over a much greater geographic range. However, this creates an overall false balance as people tend to seek out information that is compatible with their existing views and values. They deliberately seek out “facts” and data that specifically support their conclusions and classify any information that contradicts their beliefs as “false news.” Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World is a collection of innovative research on human and automated methods to deter the spread of misinformation online, such as legal or policy changes, information literacy workshops, and algorithms that can detect fake news dissemination patterns in social media. While highlighting topics including source credibility, share culture, and media literacy, this book is ideally designed for social media managers, technology and software developers, IT specialists, educators, columnists, writers, editors, journalists, broadcasters, newscasters, researchers, policymakers, and students.

Artificial Misinformation

Author : Donghee Shin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031525698
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Artificial Misinformation written by Donghee Shin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Misinformation Matters

Author : Uyiosa Omoregie
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000863905
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Misinformation Matters written by Uyiosa Omoregie and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is "misinformation"? Why does it matter? How does it spread on the internet, especially on social media platforms? What can we do to counteract the worst of its effects? Can we counteract its effects now that it is ubiquitous? These are the questions we answer in this book. We are living in an information age (specifically an "algorithmic age") which prioritizes information "quantity" over "quality". Social media has brought billions of people from across the world together online and the impact of diverse platforms, such as Facebook, WeChat, Reddit, LinkedIn, Signal, WhatsApp, Gab, Instagram, Telegram, and Snapchat, has been transformational. The internet was created, with the best of intentions, as an online space where written content could be created, consumed and diffused without any real intermediary. This empowering aspect of the web is still, mostly, a force for good. People, on the whole, are better informed and online discussion is more inclusive because barriers to participation are reduced. As activity online has grown, however, an expanding catalogue of research reveals a darker side to social media, and the internet generally. Namely, misinformation’s ability to negatively influence our behaviour both online and offline. The solution we provide to this growing dilemma is informed by Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which examines the relationship between language and reality from a philosophical perspective, and complements Claude Shannon’s Information Quantity Theory, which addresses the quantification, storage and communication of digital information from a mathematical perspective. The book ends by setting out a model designed by us: a "Wittgensteinian" approach to information quality. It defines content published online by clarifying the propositions and claims made within it. Our model’s online information quality check allows users to effectively analyse the quality of trending online content. This approach to misinformation analysis and prevention has been designed to be both easy to use and pragmatic. It upholds freedom of speech online while using the "harm principle" to categorise problematic content.

Misinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology

Author : Keith Raymond Harris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104008642X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Misinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology written by Keith Raymond Harris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that misinformation poses a multifaceted threat to knowledge, while arguing that some forms of content moderation risk exacerbating these threats. It proposes alternative forms of content moderation that aim to address this complexity while enhancing human epistemic agency. The proliferation of fake news, false conspiracy theories, and other forms of misinformation on the internet and especially social media is widely recognized as a threat to individual knowledge and, consequently, to collective deliberation and democracy itself. This book argues that misinformation presents a three-pronged threat to knowledge. While researchers often focus on the role of misinformation in causing false beliefs, this deceptive potential of misinformation exists alongside the potential to suppress trust and to distort the perception of evidence. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of this threat is essential to the development of effective measures to mitigate the harms associated with misinformation. The book weaves together work in analytic epistemology with emerging empirical work in other disciplines to offer novel insights into the threats posed by misinformation. Additionally, it breaks new ground by systematically assessing different forms of content moderation from the perspective of epistemology. Misinformation, Content Moderation, and Epistemology will appeal to philosophers working in applied and social epistemology, as well as scholars and advanced students in disciplines such as communication studies, political science, and social psychology who are researching misinformation. The Introduction and Chapter 1 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY- NC- ND) 4.0 license.

Bridge Builders

Author : Nathan Bomey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509545948
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Bridge Builders written by Nathan Bomey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these turbulent times, defined by ideological chasms, clashes over social justice, and a pandemic intersecting with misinformation, Americans seem hopelessly divided along fault lines of politics, race, religion, class, and culture. Yet not everyone is accepting the status quo. In Bridge Builders: Bringing People Together in a Polarized Age, journalist Nathan Bomey paints a forensic portrait of Americans who are spanning gaping divides between people of difference. From clergy fighting racism in Charlottesville to a former Republican congressman engaging conservatives on climate change and Appalachian journalists restoring social trust with the public, these countercultural leaders all believe in the power of forging lasting connections to bring about profound change. Though the blueprints for political, social, and cultural bridges vary widely, bridge builders have much in common—and we have much to learn from them. In this book, Bomey dissects the transformational ways in which bridge builders are combatting polarization by pursuing reconciliation, rejecting misinformation, and rethinking the principle of compromise.