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Fighting Falsehoods
- Suspicion, Analysis, and Response
Engelsk Paperback

Fighting Falsehoods

- Suspicion, Analysis, and Response
Engelsk Paperback

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This book offers the reader tools to recognize, analyze, and fight back against the fake news, misinformation, and disinformation that come at us from every corner.

This volume: 

  • Uses real, lively examples to help readers detect fake news, false claims, suspicious information/data, biased reporting, and hate speech;
  • Demonstrates through case studies where to look for information, what to look for, how to analyze the logic/illogic involved, and uncover the truth value of a story;
  • Discusses fact-checking sites, what they examine, and their reliability;
  • Provides examples and analyzes the components, purposes, and consequences of conspiracy theories;
  • Illustrates the tricks of using numbers/data to mislead readers;
  • Explains what to look for to help decide whether to believe the conclusions of stories based on surveys;
  • Offers a range of concrete, effective responses to dangerous, exaggerated, distorted, and false narratives;
  • Examines policy responses to fake news, disinformation, and misinformation across the world. 

A key manual to negotiate the information age, this book will be essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals of journalism and mass communication, public policy, politics, and the social sciences. It will also be an indispensable handbook for the lay reader.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
194
ISBN-13:
9781032287805
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1032287802
Udg. Dato:
23 jun 2022
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
233mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
23 jun 2022
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