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The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media
A Cross-platform Analysis
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
Author / Editor information
Rogers Richard :
Richard Rogers, PhD, is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Director of the Digital Methods Initiative. He is author of Information Politics on the Web and Digital Methods (both MIT Press) and Doing Digital Methods (SAGE).
Reviews
"The strength of Richard Rogers' edited volume lies in its thorough empirical investigations, offering insightful cross-platform analysis of how misinformation spreads across various social media. The international consortium of researchers involved provides a comprehensive and data-driven approach, making this book an essential contribution to understanding the challenges posed by misinformation in today’s digital landscape."
– Hektor Haarkötter, MEDIENwissenschaft, issue 02, 2024
– Hektor Haarkötter, MEDIENwissenschaft, issue 02, 2024
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Preface
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1 “Serious queries” and “editorial epistemologies”. How social media are contending with misinformation
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2 Problematic information in Google Web Search? Scrutinizing the results from U.S. election-related queries
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3 The scale of Facebook’s problem depends upon how “fake news” is classified
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4 When misinformation migrates. Cross-platform posting, YouTube and the deep vernacular web
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5 Fringe players on political Twitter. Source-sharing dynamics, partisanship and problematic actors
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6 Twitter as accidental authority. How a platform assumed an adjudicative role during the COVID-19 pandemic
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7 The earnest platform . U.S. presidential candidates, COVID-19, and social issues on Instagram
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8 A fringe mainstreamed, or tracing antagonistic slang between 4chan and Breitbart before and after Trump
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9 Political TikTok . Playful performance, ambivalent critique and event-commentary
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Afterword: The misinformation problem and the deplatforming debates
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Bibliography
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 24, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789048554249
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
246
Illustrations:
49
Coloured Illustrations:
49
eBook ISBN:
9789048554249
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Professional and scholarly;
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