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Record Nr.

UNINA9910634038803321

Titolo

The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation / / edited by Karen Fowler-Watt, Julian McDougall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031119767

3031119762

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 pages)

Disciplina

070.43

302.231

Soggetti

Communication

Social media

Journalism

Communication in medicine

Communication in politics

Media and Communication

Social Media

Digital Journalism

Health Communication

Political Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Democracy, Disruption and Civic Crisis (Diagnosis) -- 3. Fake News, Conspiracy, Propaganda (Diagnosis) -- 4. Health, Science and Data (Diagnosis) -- 5. Journalism (Response) -- 6. Media Literacy (Response). .

Sommario/riassunto

The Palgrave Handbook of Media Misinformation provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge resource on the critical debates surrounding fake news and misinformation online. Spanning all continents and linking academic, journalistic, and educational communities, this collection offers authoritative coverage of conspiracy theories, the post-Trump and Brexit landscape, and the role of big tech



in threats to democracy and free speech. The collection moves through a diagnosis of misinformation and its impacts on democracy and civic societies, the 'mainstreaming' of conspiracy theory, the impacts of misinformation on health and science, and the increasing significance of data visualization. Following these diagnoses, the handbook moves to responses from two communities of practice – the world of journalism and the field of media literacy. .