Disinformation Age (eBook, ePUB)

Politics, Technology, and Disruptive Communication in the United States
Redaktion: Bennett, W. Lance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The intentional spread of falsehoods - and attendant attacks on minorities, press freedoms, and the rule of law - challenge the basic norms and values upon which institutional legitimacy and political stability depend. How did we get here? The Disinformation Age assembles a remarkable group of historians, political scientists, and communication scholars to examine the historical and political origins of the post-fact information era, focusing on the United States but with lessons for other democracies. Bennett and Livingston frame the book by examining decades-long efforts by political and business interests to undermine authoritative institutions, including parties, elections, public agencies, science, independent journalism, and civil society groups. The other distinguished scholars explore the historical origins and workings of disinformation, along with policy challenges and the role of the legacy press in improving public communication. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108906579
• Artikelnr.: 62747070

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. The origins and political importance of disinformation; Author
Biographies; Part I. Disinformation in Political and Historical Context: 1.
A brief history of the disinformation age: information wars and the decline
of institutional authority W. Lance Bennett and Steven Livingston; Part II.
The Current Situation: 2. A political economy of the origins of asymmetric
propaganda in American media Yochai Benkler; 3. The flooded zone: how we
became more vulnerable to disinformation in the digital era Paul Starr;
Part III. Historical Roots of Disinformation: 4. How American businessmen
made us believe that free enterprise was indivisible from American
democracy: the National association of manufacturers' propaganda campaign
1935-1940 Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway and Charlie Tyson; 5. 'Since we are
greatly outnumbered': why and how the Koch network uses disinformation to
thwart democracy Nancy MacLean; Part IV. The Policy Problem: 6. How digital
disinformation turned dangerous Dave Karpf; 7. Policy lessons from five
historical patterns in information manipulation Heidi Tworek; 8. Why it is
so difficult to regulate disinformation online Ben Epstein; Part V. The
Role of Public Broadcasting: 9. US public broadcasting: a bulwark against
disinformation? Patricia Aufderheide; 10. The public media option:
confronting policy failure in an age of misinformation Victor Pickard; Part
VI. Conclusion: Defending Democracy in the Disinformation Age: 11. The
coordinated attack on authoritative institutions: defending democracy in
the disinformation age Steven Livingston and W. Lance Bennett.