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Reality Lost - Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Reality Lost - Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Discovery Miles 5 910
You Save R110 (16%)
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This open access book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a
post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist
narratives, fake news, conspiracy theories and make-believe.
Misinformation is turning into a challenge for all of us, whether
politicians, journalists, or citizens. In the age of information,
attention is a prime asset and may be converted into money, power,
and influence - sometimes at the cost of facts. The point is to
obtain exposure on the air and in print media, and to generate
traffic on social media platforms. With information in abundance
and attention scarce, the competition is ever fiercer with truth
all too often becoming the first victim. Reality Lost: Markets of
Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation is an analysis by
philosophers Vincent F. Hendricks and Mads Vestergaard of the nuts
and bolts of the information market, the attention economy and
media eco-system which may pave way to postfactual democracy. Here
misleading narratives become the basis for political opinion
formation, debate, and legislation. To curb this development and
the threat it poses to democratic deliberation, political
self-determination and freedom, it is necessary that we first grasp
the mechanisms and structural conditions that cause it.
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