Fake News in Digital Cultures : Technology, Populism and Digital Misinformation /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Cover, Rob (Author), Haw, Ashleigh (Author), Thompson, Jay Daniel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Fake news.
Digital media.
Digital media > Political aspects.
Fausses nouvelles.
Médias numériques.
Médias numériques > Aspect politique.
Media studies.
Social Science > Media Studies.
Digital media
Digital media > Political aspects
Fake news
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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