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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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Handbook of research on deception, fake news, and misinformation online
Chiluwa, Innocent
Ebook
The growing amount of false and misleading information on the internet has generated new concerns and quests for research regarding the study of deception and deception detection. Innovative methods that involve catching these fraudulent scams are constantly being perfected, but more material...
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Fake news in context
Farmer, Lesley S. J.
Ebook
Fake News in Context defines fake news and sets it within a historical and international context. Helping readers to become more skilled at detecting misinformation, the book also demonstrates how such knowledge can be leveraged to facilitate more effective engagement in civic education. ...
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What do we know and what should we do about...? fake news
Anstead, Nick
Ebook
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Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation
Paper Book
This volume examines the phenomenon of fake news by bringing together leading experts from different fields within psychology and related areas, and explores what has become a prominent feature of public discourse since the first Brexit referendum and the 2016 US election campaign. Dealing...
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The roots of fake news : objecting to objective journalism
Winston, Brian
Ebook
The Roots of Fake News argues that 'fake news' is not a problem caused by the power of the internet, or by the failure of good journalism to assert itself. Rather, it is within the news's ideological foundations - professionalism, neutrality, and most especially objectivity - that the true...
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Myth of 'free media' and fake news in the post-truth era
Seneviratne, Kalinga
Ebook
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The first : how to think about hate speech, campus speech, religious speech, fake news, post-truth, and Donald Trump
Fish, Stanley Eugene
Paper Book
"Fish's points arrive in thoughtful, dense provocations." --Kirkus Reviews From celebrated public intellectual and New York Times bestselling author, Stanley Fish, comes an urgent and sharply observed look at one of the most hotly debated issues of our time: freedom of...
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Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why
Paper Book
No detailed description available for "A Passion for Ignorance".
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Frontiers in Fake Media Generation and Detection
Khosravy, Mahdi.
Ebook
The book presents recent advances in the generation and detection of fake multimedia. It also presents some frontiers in defensive techniques in front of skillfully cloned media. The ultimate purpose of the research direction presented by this book is to build up a trustworthy media network...
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The epistemology of deceit in a postdigital er : dupery by design
Mackenzie, Alison
Ebook
This edited book collection offers strong theoretical and philosophical insight into how digital platforms and their constituent algorithms interact with belief systems to achieve deception, and how related vices such as lies, bullshit, misinformation, disinformation, and ignorance contribute to...
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Navigating fake news, alternative facts, and misinformation in a post-truth world
Dalkir, Kimiz
Ebook
In the current day and age, objective facts have less influence on opinions and decisions than personal emotions and beliefs. Many individuals rely on their social networks to gather information thanks to social media's ability to share information rapidly and over a much greater geographic range....
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RussiaGate and propaganda : disinformation in the age of social media
Boyd-Barrett, Oliver
Ebook
This book furthers our understanding of the practice of propaganda with a specific focus on the RussiaGate case. RussiaGate is a discourse about alleged Russian "meddling" in US elections, and this book argues that it functions as disinformation or distraction. The book provides a...
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Fake news : understanding media and misinformation in the digital age
Zimdars, Melissa
Paper Book
New perspectives on the misinformation ecosystem that is the production and circulation of fake news. What is fake news? Is it an item on Breitbart, an article in The Onion, an outright falsehood disseminated via Russian bot, or a catchphrase used by a politician to discredit a...
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Disinformation and fake news
Jayakumar, Shashi
Ebook
This book is a collection of chapters penned by practitioners from around the world on the impact that disinformation and fake news has had in both the online and social sphere. While much has been said about individual disinformation campaigns in specific countries, this book...
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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...
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Language of Fake News
Grieve
Paper Book
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...
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Education in an Age of Lies and Fake News : Regaining a Love of Truth
Ozoli?s, J?nis (John) T?livaldis
Paper Book
The 'post-truth' world in which we live has been beset by fake news, lies and a cavalier disregard for truth. If truth is neglected then an alternative is an appeal to the emotions in order to validate a particular position, which can quickly turn to the use of power to impose a&...
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Democracy and fake news : information manipulation and post-truth politics
Giusti, Serena
Paper Book
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been...
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News literacy and democracy
Ashley, Seth
Ebook
News Literacy and Democracy invites readers to go beyond surface-level fact checking and to examine the structures, institutions, practices, and routines that comprise news media systems. This introductory text underscores the importance of news literacy to democratic life and advances an...
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Critical media literacy and fake news in post-truth America
Goering, Christian Z.
Ebook
This edited collection is not a response to the 2016 United States Presidential Election so much as it is a response to the issues highlighted through that single event and since when incredibly smart, sophisticated, and intelligent members of our society were confused by misinformation campaigns....
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How algorithms create and prevent fake news : exploring the impacts of social media, deepfakes, GPT-3, and more
Giansiracusa, Noah
Ebook
"It's a joy to read a book by a mathematician who knows how to write. [...] There is no better guide to the strategies and stakes of this battle for the future." ---Paul Romer, Nobel Laureate, University Professor in Economics at NYU, and former Chief Economist at the World...
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Deep fakes, fake news, and misinformation in online teaching and learning technologies
Blankenship, Rebecca J.
Ebook
Choosing the right technologies to match student learning outcomes in today's technology-integrated classrooms presents educators and instructional designers with multiple curricula and instructional design challenges including selecting appropriate technologies to match desired student learning...
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The epistemology of fake news
Bernecker, Sven
Ebook
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Beyond fake news : finding the truth in a world of misinformation
McBrayer, Justin P.
Ebook
The world is swimming in misinformation. Conflicting messages bombard us every day with news on everything from politics and world events to investments and alternative health. The daily paper, nightly news, websites, and social media each compete for our attention and each often insist on a...
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Journalism ethics at the crossroads : democracy, fake news, and the news crisis
Patching, Roger
Ebook
This book provides journalism students with an easy-to-read yet theoretically rich guide to the dialectics, contradictions, problems, and promises encapsulated in the term 'journalism ethics'. Offering an overview of a series of crises that have shaken global journalism to its foundations...
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A history of fake things on the internet
Scheirer, Walter
Ebook
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Digital Disinformation in Africa : Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda
Roberts, Tony
Ebook
In an era when hashtag campaigns like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter capture global attention for victims of injustice, politicians and corporations are now spending billions employing Cambridge Analytica-type consultancies to manufacture disinformation - employing trolls, cyborgs and bots to disrupt...
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Societal Deception : Global Social Issues in Post-Truth Times
Lawrence, Geoffrey.
Ebook
This book provides a comprehensive overview of 'societal deception' - how and why people are deceived and led to believe fake news. Coherently blending critical political economy and sociology, the author provocatively examines how corporations, political parties, the media, think tanks and...
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Unveiling Semiotic Codes of Fake News and Misinformation : Contemporary Theories and Practices for Media Professionals
Iskanderova, Tatiana.
Ebook
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the widespread issue of fake news and misinformation. Using real-life examples and semiotic theory, the author demonstrates how language, images, and symbols are being utilized in media production and distribution with the intention of altering the...
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Artificial Misinformation : Exploring Human-Algorithm Interaction Online
Shin, Donghee.
Ebook
This book serves as a guide to understanding the dynamics of AI in human contexts with a specific focus on the generation, sharing, and consumption of misinformation online. How do humans and AI interact? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? What are the interaction...
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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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Fake news in America : contested meanings in the post-truth era
Dimaggio, Anthony R.
Ebook
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Information disorder: algorithms and society
Filimowicz, Michael
Ebook
This book focuses on the recent rise of "infodemics" as forms of disinformation, misinformation and mal-information saturate contemporary media platforms, shaping public opinion to advance agendas. The internet in general and social media in particular have relativized, through their...
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Misinformation in the digital age : an American infodemic
Stephens, Monica
Ebook
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State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe : How Politicians Deceive Their Citizens
Echeverría, Martin.
Ebook
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Language and Truth : What Makes Communication Reliable in a Post-Truth World
Moeschler, Jacques
Ebook
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Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World : Faith, Fact and Fakery
Ali, Erkan.
Ebook
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Towards a New Paradigm on Post-truth
Kuraishi, Anam
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Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity
Paper Book
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Disinformation Debunked : Building Resilience Through Media and Information Literacy
Frau-Meigs, Divina.
Ebook
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From Dezinformatsiya to Disinformation : A Critical Analysis of Strategies and Effect on the Digital Public Sphere
Acampa, Suania
Ebook
The book takes a critical look at the phenomenon of disinformation by identifying the historical, technological and human elements that contribute to the current success of disinformation strategies. The author examines the origin of the word "Dezinformatsiya", used by Russian planners in the...
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Evaluation in the Post-Truth World
Marra, Mita
Ebook
Evaluation in the Post-Truth World explores the relationship between the nature of evaluative knowledge, the increasing demand in decision-making for evaluation and other forms of research evidence, and the post-truth phenomena of antiscience sentiments combined with illiberal tendencies of the...
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Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy Mapping the Politics of Falsehood
Farkas, Johan
Ebook
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Post-truth American politics : false stories and current crises
Ricci, David M.
Ebook
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Public history for a post-truth era : fighting denial through memory movements
Ševčenko, Liz
Ebook
Public History for a Post-Truth Era explores how to combat historical denial when faith in facts is at an all-time low. Moving beyond memorial museums or documentaries, the book shares on-the-ground stories of participatory public memory movements that brought people together to grapple with the...
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