Document details

Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2020), xi, 395 pp.

Contains index

Series: Information Policy Series

ISBN 978-0-262538367

Signature commbox: 201:10-Politics 2020

Introduction / Melissa Zimdars
1 The Political Function of Fake News: Disorganized Propaganda in the Era of Automated Media / Mark Andrejevic
2 Ways of Seeing … What You Want: Flexible Visuality and Image Politics in the Post-Truth Era / Gina Giotta
3 A Case against the Post-Truth Era: Revisiting Mouffe's Critique of Consensus-Based Democracy / Johan Farkas
4 You're Fake News: The Problem with Accusations of Falsehood / Whitney Phillips
5 Journalism and the New Information Ecosystem: Responsibilities and Challenges / Claire Wardle
6 Native Advertising as Counterfeit News / Theodore L. Glasser, Sheng Zou and Anita Varma
7 The Second Amendment vs. the First: The NRA's Constitutional Bias Perspective on Fake News / Dawn R. Gilpin
8 Media Credibility before "Fake News": Interpreting an Antiabortion Activist Undercover Video / Colin Doty
9 Confronting the Misinformation Society: Facebook's "Fake News" Is a Symptom of Unaccountable Monopoly Power / Victor Pickard
10 Fixing Fake News: Self-Regulation and Technological Solutionism / Stephanie Ricker Schulte
11 The Scourge of Disinformation-Assisted Hate Propaganda / Cherian George
12 Fake News and Open Channels of Communication / Paul Levinson
13 Fake News Fingerprints / Dan Faltesek
14 Reddit's Alt-Right: Toxic Masculinity, Free Speech, and /r/The_Donald / Adrienne Massanari
15 Fake Memetics: Popular Rhetoric and Circulation in Political Campaigns / Benjamin Burroughs
16 Weaponizing #fakenews in a Visual War on Journalism: Seeing a Big Picture through Instagram / Leslie-Jean Thornton
17 Mental Shortcuts, Emotion, and Social Rewards: The Challenges of Detecting and Resisting Fake News / Nicholas David Bowman and Elizabeth Cohen
18 Source Credibility and Belief in Fake News: I'll Believe You If You Agree with Me / Danielle Polage
19 Technology, Propaganda, and the Limits of the Fluman Intellect / Panagiotis Takis Metaxas
20 A Prehistory of Fake News in America / Kembrew McLeod
21 Beware the Theory in Conspiracy Theories / Benjamin Peters
22 "The Intel on This Wasn't 100 Percent": Fake News and Concerns over the Modern Democratic Project / Mark Brewin
23 An Oral History of the Yes Men / Kembrew McLeod
24 An Interview with the Yes Men / Kembrew McLeod
25 All "Fake News" Is Not Equal / Sophia A. McClennen
26 Platforms Throw Content Moderation at Every Problem / Tarleton Gillespie
27 Normalizing Fake News in an Age of Platforms / Paul Mihailidis
28 Teaching "Fake News" and Resisting the Privilege of Forgetting / Amanda Ann Klein
29 Viral "Fake News" Lists and the Limitations of Labeling and Fact-Checking / Melissa Zimdars