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In this book, the authors examine factors influencing the spread of fake news, and suggest ways to combat it by exploring the key elements which enable and facilitate this phenomenon.
Sommario
Foreword: Fake News-Anxieties and Neurosis in the Era of Social Media
1. History of Fake News, Fadi Safieddine
2. Fake News, Media, and the Fourth Estate, Yasmin Ibrahim
3. Political and Social Impact of Digital Fake News in an Era of Social Media, Fadi Safieddine
4. Case Study: Fake News and Threat to Brazilians' Health, Gheorghita Ghinea, Suzana G. Cardoso, Marian C. M. Caparelli
5. The Psychology of Fake News, Seth M. Porter
6. Modelling the Propagation of Fake News in Social Media, Pardis Pourghomi
7. Corporate Attempts to Combat Fake News, Milan Djordjevic
8. Academic Research into Combating Fake News, Pardis Pourghomi
9. Variable Identification and Approaches to Validating Fake News, Milan Dordevic and Dr Fadi Safieddine
10. Fake News: A Legal Perspective, Moufid El-Khoury
11. The Ethics of the Posttruth Society: Where Are We With This? Yasmin Ibrahim
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Yasmin Ibrahim is Professor of Digital Economy and Culture and Head of the Department of Marketing in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She has written extensively on race and social media, digital capitalism and on technologies of trauma. Her recent books include Digital Racial: Algorithmic Violence and Digital Platforms (Roman & Littlefield, 2023), Migrants and Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and 'Unmaking' the Human (2022), Technologies of Trauma: Cultural Formations Over Time (2022), and Posthuman Capitalism: Dancing with Data in the Digital Economy (2021).Fadi Safieddine is Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of East London.
