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This volume will explore news consumption and media manipulation, including selective curation of news stories and the lack of a shared news narrative. It will examine the effect of internet subcultures that manipulate news feeds, set agendas, and push ideas forward. It will investigate internet media’s dependence on trending analytics and metrics, sensationalism of headlines and advertising driven models of news publishing. The volume will also explore the negative effect of public consumption of false or misleading news.
177 pages, Paperback
Published March 29, 2018
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February 28, 2020
A collection of articles with opposing view points discussing how media is currently being used as a weapon to convince individuals in society to believe false information when it appears it’s being written by a reliable source.
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