Reality filters: disinformation and fake news
The recent past has been characterised by both a rise in fake news and the emergence of a febrile political atmosphere. Increasingly social media and digital networking are coming under the spotlight as significant causes. The internet has become perhaps a disinformation superhighway, the promised...
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| description | The recent past has been characterised by both a rise in fake news and the emergence of a febrile political atmosphere. Increasingly social media and digital networking are coming under the spotlight as significant causes. The internet has become perhaps a disinformation superhighway, the promised wisdom of crowds (Suriwuecki, 2004) degenerating into the clamour of the twitter mob (e.g. Ronson, 2015). Fake news and disinformation have come to dominate, and the democratising effects of digital media have been undone by increasing concentrations of power into a handful of tech companies. In this editorial we explore the rise of fake news and how it is transforming public discourse. |
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| spelling | oai:repository.londonmet.ac.uk:53242019-11-25T12:50:51Z http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5324/ Reality filters: disinformation and fake news Tredinnick, Luke Laybats, Claire 020 Library & information sciences The recent past has been characterised by both a rise in fake news and the emergence of a febrile political atmosphere. Increasingly social media and digital networking are coming under the spotlight as significant causes. The internet has become perhaps a disinformation superhighway, the promised wisdom of crowds (Suriwuecki, 2004) degenerating into the clamour of the twitter mob (e.g. Ronson, 2015). Fake news and disinformation have come to dominate, and the democratising effects of digital media have been undone by increasing concentrations of power into a handful of tech companies. In this editorial we explore the rise of fake news and how it is transforming public discourse. SAGE Publications 2019-09-13 Article NonPeerReviewed text en https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/5324/3/BIR-editorial_Disinformation-and-Fake-News_Final.pdf Tredinnick, Luke and Laybats, Claire (2019) Reality filters: disinformation and fake news. Business Information Review, 36 (3). pp. 92-94. ISSN 1741-6450 |
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| title | Reality filters: disinformation and fake news |
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| title_short | Reality filters: disinformation and fake news |
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