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Critical Media Literacy and Fake News in Post-Truth America by
Winner 2019 Divergent Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies Research This edited collection is not a response to the 2016 United States Presidential Election so much as it is a response to the issues highlighted through that single event and since when incredibly smart, sophisticated, and intelligent members of our society were confused by misinformation campaigns. While media literacy and critical media literacy are ideas with long histories in formal education, including K-12 students and higher education, the need for increased attention to these issues has never reached a flash point like the present. The essays collected here are confrontations of post-truth, fake news, mainstream media, and traditional approaches to formal schooling. But there are no simple answers or quick fixes. Critical media literacy, we argue here, may well be the only thing between a free people and their freedom.
ISBN: 9789004365353Publication Date: 2018-02-08
Democracy and Fake News by
This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively changing the information landscape, undermining some of the pillars of democracy. The volume sheds light on some topical questions connected to fake news, thereby contributing to a fuller understanding of its impact on democracy. In the Introduction, the editors offer some orientating definitions of post-truth politics, building a theoretical framework where various different aspects of fake news can be understood. The book is then divided into three parts: Part I helps to contextualise the phenomena investigated, offering definitions and discussing key concepts as well as aspects linked to the manipulation of information systems, especially considering its reverberation on democracy. Part II considers the phenomena of disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics in the context of Russia, which emerges as a laboratory where the phases of creation and diffusion of fake news can be broken down and analysed; consequently, Part II also reflects on the ways to counteract disinformation and fake news. Part III moves from case studies in Western and Central Europe to reflect on the methodological difficulty of investigating disinformation, as well as tackling the very delicate question of detection, combat, and prevention of fake news. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, law, political philosophy, journalism, media studies, and computer science, since it provides a multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of post-truth politics. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003037385, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
ISBN: 1000286738Publication Date: 2020-12-29
Detecting Fake News on Social Media by
This book is an accessible introduction to the study of detecting fake news on social media. The concepts, algorithms, and methods described in this book can help harness the power of social media to build effective and intelligent fake news detection systems. In the past decade, social media is becoming increasingly popular for news consumption due to its easy access, fast dissemination, and low cost. However, social media also enables the wide propagation of "fake news," i.e., news with intentionally false information. Fake news on social media can have significant negative societal effects. Therefore, fake news detection on social media has recently become an emerging research that is attracting tremendous attention. From a data mining perspective, this book introduces the basic concepts and characteristics of fake news across disciplines, reviews representative fake news detection methods in a principled way, and illustrates advanced settings of fake news detection on social media. In particular, the authors discuss the value of news content and social context, as well as important extensions to handle early detection, weakly-supervised detection, and explainable detection. This is essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners to understand, manage, and excel in this area. This book is supported by additional materials, including lecture slides, the complete set of figures, key references, datasets, tools used in this book, and the source code of representative algorithms.
ISBN: 9781681735825Publication Date: 2019-07-30
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News in Social Media by
This book serves as a convenient entry point for researchers, practitioners, and students to understand the problems and challenges, learn state-of-the-art solutions for their specific needs, and quickly identify new research problems in their domains. The contributors to this volume describe the recent advancements in three related parts: (1) user engagements in the dissemination of information disorder; (2) techniques on detecting and mitigating disinformation; and (3) trending issues such as ethics, blockchain, clickbaits, etc. This edited volume will appeal to students, researchers, and professionals working on disinformation, misinformation and fake news in social media from a unique lens.
ISBN: 9783030426989Publication Date: 2020-06-18
Fact vs. Fiction by
Help students discern fact from fiction in the information they access not only at school but in the devices they carry in their pockets and backpacks. The advent of the 24-hour news cycle, citizen journalism and an increased reliance on social media as a trusted news source have had a profound effect not only on how we get our news, but also on how we evaluate sources of information, share that information and interact with others in online communities. When these issues are coupled with the "fake news" industry that intentionally spreads false stories designed to go viral, educators are left facing a new and challenging landscape. This book will help them address these new realities, providing strategies and support to help students develop the skills needed to effectively evaluate information they encounter online. The book includes: Instructional strategies for combating fake news, including models for evaluating news stories with links to resources on how to include lessons on fake news in your curricula. Examples from prominent educators who demonstrate how to tackle fake news with students and colleagues. A fake news self-assessment with a digital component to help readers evaluate their skills in detecting and managing fake news. A downloadable infographic with mobile media literacy tips. The companion jump start guide based on this book is Fighting Fake News: Tools and Strategies for Teaching Media Literacy. Audience: K-12 educators
ISBN: 9781564847041Publication Date: 2018-12-18
Fake News Nation by
How rumors, lies, and misrepresentations shaped American history After the election of Donald Trump as president, people in the United States and across large swaths of Europe, Latin America, and Asia engaged in the most intensive discussion in modern times about falsehoods pronounced by public officials. Fake facts in their various forms have long been present in American life, particularly in its politics, public discourse, and business activities - going back to the time when the country was formed. This book explores the long tradition of fake facts, in their various guises, in American history. It is one of the first historical studies to place the long history of lies and misrepresentation squarely in the middle of American political, business, and science policy rhetoric. In Fake News Nation, James Cortada and William Aspray present a series of case studies that describe how lies and fake facts were used over the past two centuries in important instances in American history. Cortada and Aspray give readers a perspective on fake facts as they appear today and as they are likely to appear in the future.
ISBN: 9781538131107Publication Date: 2019-10-01
How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News by
"It's a joy to read a book by a mathematician who knows how to write. [...] There is no better guide to the strategies and stakes of this battle for the future." ---Paul Romer, Nobel Laureate, University Professor in Economics at NYU, and former Chief Economist at the World Bank. "By explaining the flaws and foibles of everything from Google search to QAnon--and by providing level-headed evaluations of efforts to fix them--Noah Giansiracusa offers the perfect starting point for anyone entering the maze of modern digital media." --Jonathan Rauch, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and contributing editor of The Atlantic From deepfakes to GPT-3, deep learning is now powering a new assault on our ability to tell what's real and what's not, bringing a whole new algorithmic side to fake news. On the other hand, remarkable methods are being developed to help automate fact-checking and the detection of fake news and doctored media. Success in the modern business world requires you to understand these algorithmic currents, and to recognize the strengths, limits, and impacts of deep learning---especially when it comes to discerning the truth and differentiating fact from fiction. This book tells the stories of this algorithmic battle for the truth and how it impacts individuals and society at large. In doing so, it weaves together the human stories and what's at stake here, a simplified technical background on how these algorithms work, and an accessible survey of the research literature exploring these various topics. How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News is an accessible, broad account of the various ways that data-driven algorithms have been distorting reality and rendering the truth harder to grasp. From news aggregators to Google searches to YouTube recommendations to Facebook news feeds, the way we obtain information today is filtered through the lens of tech giant algorithms. The way data is collected, labelled, and stored has a big impact on the machine learning algorithms that are trained on it, and this is a main source of algorithmic bias - which gets amplified in harmful data feedback loops. Don't be afraid: with this book you'll see the remedies and technical solutions that are being applied to oppose these harmful trends. There is hope. What You Will Learn The ways that data labeling and storage impact machine learning and how feedback loops can occur The history and inner-workings of YouTube's recommendation algorithm The state-of-the-art capabilities of AI-powered text generation (GPT-3) and video synthesis/doctoring (deepfakes) and how these technologies have been used so far The algorithmic tools available to help with automated fact-checking and truth-detection Who This Book is For People who don't have a technical background (in data, computers, etc.) but who would like to learn how algorithms impact society; business leaders who want to know the powers and perils of relying on artificial intelligence. A secondary audience is people with a technical background who want to explore the larger social and societal impact of their work.
ISBN: 9781484271544Publication Date: 2021-07-15
The Misinformation Age by
The social dynamics of "alternative facts": why what you believe depends on who you know "Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy."--Kirkus Reviews Editors' choice, New York Times Book Review * Recommended reading, Scientific American Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false beliefs. It might seem that there's an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that's right, then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they believe true things or not? The Misinformation Age, written for a political era riven by "fake news," "alternative facts," and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, shows convincingly that what you believe depends on who you know. If social forces explain the persistence of false belief, we must understand how those forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively.
ISBN: 9780300241006Publication Date: 2019-01-08
The Psychology of Fake News by
This volume examines the phenomenon of fake news by bringing together leading experts from different fields within psychology and related areas, and explores what has become a prominent feature of public discourse since the first Brexit referendum and the 2016 US election campaign. Dealing with misinformation is important in many areas of daily life, from politics and the marketplace to health communication, journalism, education, and science. At a time when facts and misinformation blur, and are intentionally blurred, this book asks what determines whether people accept and share (mis)information, and what can be done to counter misinformation? Experts from psychology and related behavioural sciences summarize key empirical findings, theories, and applications, and discuss cutting‐edge ideas. They shed light on what contributes to the acceptance and the sharing of fake news, and emphasize the critical role of online social networks in recent years. Their insights provide guidance on how to handle misinformation in an age of "alternative facts," making this book a fascinating and vital reading for students, academics, and practitioners in psychology, education, communication, journalism, public health, policy making, and political science.
ISBN: 0367271834Publication Date: 2020-09-25
- Beyond Misinformation: Understanding and Coping with the “Post-Truth” Era
Article by Lewandowsky, Ecker, & Cook
Publication Date: 2017-04 - Combating Fake News, Disinformation, and Misinformation: Experimental Evidence for Media Literacy Education
Article by Dame Adjin-Tettey
Publication Date: 2022-12-31 - Combating Fake News: A Survey on Identification and Mitigation Techniques
Article by Sharma, et al.
Publication Date: 2019-05-31 - Defining "Fake News": A typology of scholarly definitions
Article by Tandoc, Lim, & Ling
Publication Date: 2018-02-07 - Fake Claims of Fake News: Political Misinformation, Warnings, and the Tainted Truth Effect
Article by Freeze, et al.
Publication Date: 2020-02-05 - Fake News: Scientific Research in the Age of Misinformation
Article by Gilligan & Gologorsky
Publication Date: 2019-11 - The Psychology of Fake News
Article by Pennycook & Rand
Publication Date: 2021-05 - The Science of Fake News
Article by Lazer, et al.
Publication Date: 2018-03-09 - Social Inequality and the Spread of Misinformation
Article by Mohamed Mostagir & James Siderius
Publication Date: 2023-02
How You Can Help Transform the Internet into a Place of Trust
How to See Past Your Own Perspective and Find Truth
What to Trust in a Post-Truth World
How Fake News Does Real Harm
How to Seek Truth in an Era of Fake News
How We Can Protect Truth in the Age of Misinformation
How Deepfakes Undermine Truth and Threaten Democracy
- After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News
Documentary from HBO.
Runtime: 1hr 34 min - Digital Disconnect: Fake News, Privacy and Democracy
A 2-part documentary from the Media Education Foundation.
Total Runtime: 1hr 40min - Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy
An 8 episode series from The Great Courses.
Total Runtime: 3hr 34min - Post Truth Times: We The Media: Navigating Information in a Post-Truth Media Landscape
Documentary by Hector Carre.
Runtime: 1hr 42min
How to Spot Fake News - The Visual Capitalist
Read the content from the infographic on the Visual Capitalist's website.
- First Draft News Training
Explore a free library of training content provided by First Draft’s highly experienced team. These online courses, toolkits and resources are designed to help both journalists and the public build expertise and stay one step ahead of misinformation. - Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Open Access book with practice activities from Mike Caulfield. - Fake news, Lies, and Propaganda: The Class
Lesson plans, slides, and assignments from a Fake News course at University of Michigan Libraries. - Journalism, Fake News & Disinformation: handbook for journalism education and training
This course adopts a heuristic pedagogical model, meaning that users are encouraged to bring their own experiences to the process. The lessons are not intended to be prescriptive; rather they can and should be adapted to suit particular national, cultural, institutional, and industry contexts of teaching and learning. - OER Commons
You can search OER Commons for "fake news," "misinformation," or "disinformation" to find open access lesson plans, syllabi, activities, and more.
- Bad News
From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can. - Break the Fake
Use your skills to determine if the media posts are true or false. - Detect Fakes
Determine whether the video or audio clips are real or fakes. - Facticious 2020
Test your skills at determining whether a news article is fact or fiction. - Fake It To Make It
Become a creator of fake news and see what it takes to make up stories for money. - Fakeout
Practice judging social media posts. - Informable
This app from the News Literacy Project tests your ability to identify hidden ads, faulty evidence, and "fake news" - Which Face is Real?
Try to determine which image is real and which was computer generated.