However, this creates an overall false balance as people tend to seek out information that is compatible with their existing views and values. 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. Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World by Kimiz Dalkir Rebecca Katz In the current day and age, objective facts have less influence on opinions and decisions than personal emotions and beliefs.
McClennen, Kembrew McLeod, Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, Paul Mihailidis, Benjamin Peters, Whitney Phillips, Victor Pickard, Danielle Polage, Stephanie Ricker Schulte, Leslie-Jean Thornton, Anita Varma, Claire Wardle, Melissa Zimdars, Sheng Zou
Gilpin, Gina Giotta, Theodore Glasser, Amanda Ann Klein, Paul Levinson, Adrienne Massanari, Sophia A. Contributors Mark Andrejevic, Benjamin Burroughs, Nicholas Bowman, Mark Brewin, Elizabeth Cohen, Colin Doty, Dan Faltesek, Johan Farkas, Cherian George, Tarleton Gillespie, Dawn R. Finally, contributors consider possible solutions to the complex problem of fake news-ways to mitigate its spread, to teach students to find factually accurate information, and to go beyond fact-checking. A section on media hoaxes and satire features an oral history of and an interview with prankster-activists the Yes Men, famous for parodies that reveal hidden truths. The contributors consider topics including fake news as "disorganized" propaganda folkloric falsehood in the "Pizzagate" conspiracy native advertising as counterfeit news the limitations of regulatory reform and technological solutionism Reddit's enabling of fake news the psychological mechanisms by which people make sense of information and the evolution of fake news in America.
Rather than viewing fake news through a single lens, the book maps the various kinds of misinformation through several different disciplinary perspectives, taking into account the overlapping contexts of politics, technology, and journalism. What is fake news? Is it an item on Breitbart, an article in The Onion, an outright falsehood disseminated via Russian bot, or a catchphrase used by a politician to discredit a story he doesn't like? This book examines the real fake news: the constant flow of purposefully crafted, sensational, emotionally charged, misleading or totally fabricated information that mimics the form of mainstream news. Fake News by Melissa Zimdars Kembrew McLeod New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news.
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