Overview
- Deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation
- Examines how the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain causes false information online
- Based on a rich, empirical, and interdisciplinary literature that examines multiple countries
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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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.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Conceptual Tools and Contexts
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Vian Bakir is Professor in Journalism and Political Communication at Bangor University, UK. Her most recent book is Intelligence Elites & Public Accountability: Relationships of Influence with Civil Society (2019).
Andrew McStay is Professor of Digital Life at Bangor University, UK. His most recent book is Emotional AI: The Rise of Empathic Media (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods
Book Subtitle: How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation
Authors: Vian Bakir, Andrew McStay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13551-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13550-7Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13553-8Published: 22 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13551-4Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 280
Topics: Political Communication, Journalism, Digital/New Media, Political Science, Media Sociology, Artificial Intelligence