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Fake news / Nick Anstead.

By: Anstead, Nick [author.]Material type: Text

TextSeries: What do we know and what should we do about...?Publisher: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications Ltd, c2021Description: viii, 90 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 978-1-5297-1788-4Subject(s): FAKE NEWS | PRESS AND POLITICSLOC classification: PN 4784 A57 2021

Contents:

Introduction -- Background -- What do we know? -- What should we do? -- Conclusion

Summary: Voters need to be informed to make political decisions, but what if their media diet not only prevents them from getting the information they need, but actively shapes inaccurate perceptions of the world? Drawing on examples and evidence from around the world, this book aims to make a timely intervention to the debate about the concept of fake news. Its underlying argument will have three objectives. First, to offer more precise definitions for a term that is often loosely used. Second, to offer a less technologically determinist view of fake news. New social media platforms, such as Facebook and WhatsApp, are clearly an important part of the story, but they exist in wider social, political and institutional settings. Third, to situate the idea of fake news (and our concern about it) in broader arguments about an ongoing crisis and loss of confidence in liberal democratic institutions. Only with this perspective, it will be argued, can we possibly address the question of what we should do about fake news

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Includes bibliographic references and index.

Introduction -- Background -- What do we know? -- What should we do? -- Conclusion

Voters need to be informed to make political decisions, but what if their media diet not only prevents them from getting the information they need, but actively shapes inaccurate perceptions of the world? Drawing on examples and evidence from around the world, this book aims to make a timely intervention to the debate about the concept of fake news. Its underlying argument will have three objectives. First, to offer more precise definitions for a term that is often loosely used. Second, to offer a less technologically determinist view of fake news. New social media platforms, such as Facebook and WhatsApp, are clearly an important part of the story, but they exist in wider social, political and institutional settings. Third, to situate the idea of fake news (and our concern about it) in broader arguments about an ongoing crisis and loss of confidence in liberal democratic institutions. Only with this perspective, it will be argued, can we possibly address the question of what we should do about fake news

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