Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies - How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age

Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies explains how to identify deceptive information and seek out the most trustworthy information to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Barclay takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Credible Information: Why It Matters, What Are Its Limitations
Chapter 2: Fake News as Phenomenon: (Almost) Nothing New Under the Sun
Chapter 3: Tricks of the Trade: Techniques that Lower Your Information Guard
Chapter 4:Logical Fallacies: More Tools of Deception
Chapter 5: Evaluating an Information Source: Nine Essential Questions Everyone Should Ask
Chapter 6: Power in Numbers: Negotiating the Statistics Minefield
Chapter 7: Scholarly Information: Identifying, Evaluating, and Understanding It
Chapter 8: Help Is Where You Find It: Resources for Evaluating Information
Final Thoughts

About the author

By Donald A. Barclay

Summary

Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies explains how to identify deceptive information and seek out the most trustworthy information to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Barclay takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Barclay, Donald A. Barclay, Barclay Donald A.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781538108895
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0889-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Media Studies, Presse und Journalismus, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Propaganda, conservative media, conservative media bias, donald trump book, fake news book, fake news on social media, how to spot a liar, mainstream media, Communication Studies, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism, Publishing industry & book trade