Fake News in Digital Cultures: Technology, Populism and Digital Misinformation

by Rob Cover, Ashleigh Haw, Jay Daniel Thompson

Book Overview

Fake News in Digital Cultures presents a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication, arguing that fake news is not an alien phenomenon undertaken by bad actors, but a logical outcome of contemporary digital and popular culture, conceptual changes meaning and truth, and shifts in the social practice of trust, attitude and creativity.

Looking not to the problems of the present era...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1801178798
• ISBN13: 9781801178792
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Length: 192 Pages