Donald A Barclay

Disinformation

The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By comparing current abuses of the truth with abuses from the past,this book will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond the post-truth era, and develop highly practical skills for separating truth from lies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781538196984
• ISBN-10: 1538196980
• Artikelnr.: 70064463

Autorenporträt

Donald Barclay is the Deputy University Librarian at the University of California, Merced. He has authored numerous articles and books over the course of his career on topics ranging from the literature of the American West, to children's literature, to library and information science. His most recent book, Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies: How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2018. He currently live in Merced , California.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: The Meaning of Truth in the Post-Truth Culture
Chapter 2: The Science of the Mind and the Post-Truth Culture
Chapter 3: Digital Utopias Lost: Conflicting How the Dreams from the Dawn
of Cyberspace Diverged
Chapter 4: As We May Come to Think: How Technology Changes Way We Think
Chapter 5: Propaganda: The Good, the Bad, and the Persuasive
Chapter 6: Information Wants to Be Free-And Why It Is Not
Chapter 7: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Truth Culture
Chapter 8: The Powerful Influence of Popular Culture-Amplified by Digital
Technology-On the Post-Truth Culture.
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