Fake News and Disinformation

A list to link together books related to Fake News, including disinformation.

Updated January 19, 2024
University of Victoria Libraries Justin Harrison, Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian, University of Victoria
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The anatomy of fake news : a critical news literacy education
Higdon, Nolan
Ebook
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake news have fostered calls for government regulation and industry intervention to mitigate the influence of false content. These proposals are hindered by a lack of consensus concerning the definition of fake news or its origins. Media...
Language of Fake News
Grieve
Ebook
In this Element, the authors introduce and apply a framework for the linguistic analysis of fake news. They define fake news as news that is meant to deceive as opposed to inform and argue that there should be systematic differences between real and fake news that reflect this basic difference in...
The epistemology of fake news
Bernecker, Sven
Ebook
A history of fake things on the Internet
Scheirer, Walter J.
Paper Book
A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for December 2023 As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner--and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences....
Truth and Fake in the Post-Factual Digital Age : Distinctions in the Humanities and IT Sciences
Klimczak, Peter.
Ebook
The increase in fake news, the growing influence on elections, increasing false reports and targeted disinformation campaigns are not least a consequence of advancing digitalisation. Information technology is needed to put a stop to these undesirable developments. With intelligent...

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