02817nam 2200457 450 991056669330332120221112234604.09781119714491(electronic bk.)9781119715597(epub)9781119714477(pdf)9781119714446(paperback)(MiAaPQ)EBC6943530(Au-PeEL)EBL6943530(CKB)21459761400041(EXLCZ)992145976140004120221112d2022 uy 0engurcz#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDisinformation in the global South /edited by Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-MoralesHoboken, New Jersey :John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,[2022]©20221 online resource (308 pages)Includes index.Print version: Wasserman, Herman Disinformation in the Global South Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2022 9781119714446 Includes bibliographical references and index."The recent rampant global problem of the rampant spread of disinformation in and through the digital ecosystem can perhaps be traced directly to the technological changes in the realm of media production, circulation and consumption. As media tools have become commonplace and user-friendly, the utopian dream of critical media scholarship that sought to democratize speech seems closer to reality than ever before. Alongside this process, the simultaneous decline of editorial authority of traditional media organizations has led to the rise of practices such as citizen journalism that have provided checks and balances to fill in the gaps in coverage of dominant top-down media institutions. Additionally, as users have gradually appropriated the available tools of media production, they have done so for various subversive ends including a now thriving global culture of parody, satire and critique (Wasserman 2020; Kumar 2015) using existing genres and formats to challenge dominant media texts, institutions and discourses. Often adopting the format of the very texts they seek to critique, parodic texts such as news reports and analysis don't fit the category of misinformation as they openly reveal their fake nature, even if towards the end"--Provided by publisher.Mass mediaPolitical aspectsDeveloping countriesElectronic books.Mass mediaPolitical aspects302.2309724Wasserman Herman1969-Madrid-Morales Dani1980-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910566693303321Disinformation in the global South2909261UNINA