Democracy and Fake News : Information Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics / Serena Giusti, Elisa Piras.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giusti, Serena, editor.

Piras, Elisa, editor.

Series:

Politics, media and political communication

Politics, Media and Political Communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages).

Edition:

1 edition.

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 progressively changing the information landscape, undermining some of the pillars of democracy.The volume sheds light on some topical questions connected to fake news, thereby contributing to a fuller understanding of its impact on democracy. In the Introduction, the editors offer some orientating definitions of post-truth politics, building a theoretical framework where various different aspects of fake news can be understood. The book is then divided into three parts: Part I helps to contextualise the phenomena investigated, offering definitions and discussing key concepts as well as aspects linked to the manipulation of information systems, especially considering its reverberation on democracy. Part II considers the phenomena of disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics in the context of Russia, which emerges as a laboratory where the phases of creation and diffusion of fake news can be broken down and analysed; consequently, Part II also reflects on the ways to counteract disinformation and fake news. Part III moves from case studies in Western and Central Europe to reflect on the methodological difficulty of investigating disinformation, as well as tackling the very delicate question of detection, combat, and prevention of fake news.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, law, political philosophy, journalism, media studies, and computer science, since it provides a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of post-truth politics.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 105613

ISBN:

9781000286731

OCLC:

1225367496

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003037385

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access