Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods - How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a rich, empirical, and interdisciplinary literature that examines multiple countries, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of Communications, Journalism, Politics, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Information Science, as well as global and local policymakers and ordinary citizens interested in how to prevent the spread of false information worldwide, both now and in the future.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	2023
First published:	2022
Authors:	Vian Bakir • Andrew McStay
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-113550-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General
LSN:	3-03-113550-4
Barcode:	9783031135507

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