LEADER 02817nam 2200457 450 001 9910566693303321 005 20221112234604.0 010 $a9781119714491$b(electronic bk.) 010 $a9781119715597$b(epub) 010 $a9781119714477$b(pdf) 010 $z9781119714446$b(paperback) 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6943530 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6943530 035 $a(CKB)21459761400041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921459761400041 100 $a20221112d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aDisinformation in the global South /$fedited by Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales 210 1$aHoboken, New Jersey :$cJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (308 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Wasserman, Herman Disinformation in the Global South Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2022 9781119714446 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"The recent rampant global problem of the rampant spread of disinformation in and through the digital ecosystem can perhaps be traced directly to the technological changes in the realm of media production, circulation and consumption. As media tools have become commonplace and user-friendly, the utopian dream of critical media scholarship that sought to democratize speech seems closer to reality than ever before. Alongside this process, the simultaneous decline of editorial authority of traditional media organizations has led to the rise of practices such as citizen journalism that have provided checks and balances to fill in the gaps in coverage of dominant top-down media institutions. Additionally, as users have gradually appropriated the available tools of media production, they have done so for various subversive ends including a now thriving global culture of parody, satire and critique (Wasserman 2020; Kumar 2015) using existing genres and formats to challenge dominant media texts, institutions and discourses. Often adopting the format of the very texts they seek to critique, parodic texts such as news reports and analysis don't fit the category of misinformation as they openly reveal their fake nature, even if towards the end"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aMass media$xPolitical aspects$zDeveloping countries 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMass media$xPolitical aspects 676 $a302.2309724 702 $aWasserman$b Herman$f1969- 702 $aMadrid-Morales$b Dani$f1980- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910566693303321 996 $aDisinformation in the global South$92909261 997 $aUNINA