A Field Guide to 'Fake News' and Other Information Disorders
by Liliana Bounegru, et al.
Publisher: Public Data Lab 2017
Number of pages: 216
Description:
The book explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online. It responds to an increasing demand for understanding the interplay between digital platforms, misleading information, propaganda and viral content practices, and their influence on politics and public life in democratic societies.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(77MB, PDF)
Download mirrors:
Mirror 1
Similar books
The New Hacker's Dictionary (The Jargon File)by Eric S. Raymond - The MIT Press
A comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor. This is no snoozer dictionary of technical terms, it's the slang and secret language among computer jocks that offers the most fun.
(17044 views)
Control Shift: How Technology Affects You and Your Rightsby David Meyer - Smashwords
With technology evolving at a dizzying pace, we must urgently decide how to make it work for us. To plot our course wisely, we need to understand technology's power and how it is radically shifting the balance of our lives, for better and for worse.
(3409 views)
Culture and Empire: Digital Revolutionby Pieter Hintjens - GitBook
The whole planet is getting connected and building vast new communities. This online world thinks faster, and thinks differently. What is going on, and where will this lead us? Pieter Hintjens -- programmer and activist -- tells all in this story.
(4606 views)
The Geek's Chihuahua: Living with Appleby Ian Bogost - University of Minnesota Press
The ubiquitous iPhone and its kin saturate our lives, changing everything from our communication to our posture. Ian Bogost contrasts the values of Apple's massive success in the twenty-first century with those of its rise in the twentieth.
(3591 views)