Drums: distortions, rumours, untruths, misinformation, and smears

"Fake news is not new, and this issue poses an even greater challenge now. The speed of information has increased drastically with messages now spreading internationally within seconds online. With countless photographs, opinions, and hours of video published online every falsehoods proliferate...

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1. Verfasser: Vasu, Norman (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Singapore World Scientific Publishing Company Pte Limited 2018
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Zusammenfassung:"Fake news is not new, and this issue poses an even greater challenge now. The speed of information has increased drastically with messages now spreading internationally within seconds online. With countless photographs, opinions, and hours of video published online every falsehoods proliferate rapidly. Readers are overwhelmed by the flood of information, but older markers of veracity (respected publications, official sources) have not kept up, nor has there been a commensurate growth in the ability to counter false or fake news. In many cases, staid publications of record such as newspapers have been eclipsed by new, visually attractive, and sometimes false, sources of information. All this has given an opportunity to those seeking to destabilize a state or to push their perspectives to the fore. Modern disinformation operations only need free Twitter or Facebook accounts or access to platforms such as WhatsApp or Telegram. DRUMS: Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation and Smears deals with the appeal of DRUMS, the ways DRUMS is employed, and measures to counter it. Organized in three sections - (i) Cognitive Predispositions and DRUMS, (ii) The Employment of DRUMS, and (iii) Countering DRUMS - this book offers a holistic discussion through the different specializations and different experiences of its academic, think-tanker, or policy practitioner contributors. DRUMS: Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation and Smears aims to serve those new the topic or subject matter specialists seeking to widen their knowledge on other elements of the issue."--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
The seemingly unrelenting beat of drums / Norman Vasu, Benjamin Ang, and Shashi Jayakumar -- Cognitive predispositions and drums -- The psychology of conspiracy theories : the role of pattern perception / Robert Brotherton -- Believing chicken little : evolutionary perspectives on credulity and danger / Daniel M. T. Fessler -- The employment of the drums -- Fake news : the allure of digital weapon / Nicolas Arpagian -- Mapping cyberspace : the example of Russian informational actions in France / Kevin Limonier and Louis Petiniaud -- Computational propaganda in Europe, the U.S., and China / Gillian Bolsover and Philip Howard -- Civilians in the information operations battlefront: China's information operations in the Taiwan straits / Gulizar Haciyakupoglu and Benjamin Ang -- Countering drums -- Integrating resilience in defense planning against information warfare in the post-truth world / Janis Berzins -- What can we learn from Russian hostile information operations in Europe? / Jakub Janda and Veronika Vichova -- How Germany is trying to counter online disinformation / Karolin Schwarz -- Distinguishing fact from fiction in the modern age / Andreas Schleicher
Beschreibung:1 online resource (200 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9789813274853

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