Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It s True?

By Charles Seife

Book Overview

The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital world ? Digital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to control-even when that information is actually a lie. In Virtual Unreality , Charles Seife uses the skepticism, wit, and sharp facility for analysis that captivated readers in Proofiness and Zero to take us deep into the Internet information jungle and cut a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. ? Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools-or weapons-for discerning truth from fiction online.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670026085
• ISBN13: 9780670026081
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.9" x 5.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher