Disorder And The Disinformation Society

Author : Jonathan Paul Marshall,James Goodman,Didar Zowghi,Francesca da Rimini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317436386

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Disorder and the Disinformation Society by Jonathan Paul Marshall,James Goodman,Didar Zowghi,Francesca da Rimini Pdf

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages with theories of information society which privilege information order, offering a strong counterpoint centred on "disinformation." Disorder and the Disinformation Society offers a practical agenda, arguing that difficulties in producing software are both inherent to the process of developing software and in the social dynamics of informationalism. It outlines the dynamics of software failure as they impinge on of information workers and on daily life, explores why computerized finance has become inherently self-disruptive, asks how digital enclosure and intellectual property create conflicts over cultural creativity and disrupt informational accuracy and scholarship, and reveals how social media can extend, but also distort, the development of social movements.

Author : Jonathan Paul Marshall,James Goodman,Didar Zowghi,Francesca da Rimini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317436393

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Disorder and the Disinformation Society by Jonathan Paul Marshall,James Goodman,Didar Zowghi,Francesca da Rimini Pdf

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages with theories of information society which privilege information order, offering a strong counterpoint centred on "disinformation." Disorder and the Disinformation Society offers a practical agenda, arguing that difficulties in producing software are both inherent to the process of developing software and in the social dynamics of informationalism. It outlines the dynamics of software failure as they impinge on of information workers and on daily life, explores why computerized finance has become inherently self-disruptive, asks how digital enclosure and intellectual property create conflicts over cultural creativity and disrupt informational accuracy and scholarship, and reveals how social media can extend, but also distort, the development of social movements.

Author : Michael Filimowicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Disinformation
ISBN : 1003299938

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Information Disorder by Michael Filimowicz Pdf

"This book focuses on the recent rise of 'infodemics' as forms of disinformation, misinformation and malinformation saturate contemporary media platforms, shaping public opinion to advance agendas. The internet in general and social media in particular have relativized, through their global, complex and instantaneous information flows, assumptions about truth and authority in fact-based content. This has created new opportunities for state actors to use information beyond traditional conceptions of propaganda to directly assault a public's conception of reality. Additionally, almost anyone has the capability to challenge evidential claims through narratives and imagery alone as there is a wide appetite online for alternative realities. This requires new approaches to media literacy in education, the creative arts and in our acts of media consumption and dissemination. The volume covers the ways that social media platforms amplify and catalyse the messages of politicians and influencers, the ambivalence of algorithms which can both generate and detect problematic information, how fake news imitates the style of memes to gain widespread social traction and virality, and how artists have intentionally created 'sicko AIs' in new media performances to highlight the ethical risks of increasingly 'intelligent' technologies. Scholars and students from many backgrounds, as well as policy makers, journalists and the general reading public will find a multidisciplinary approach to questions posed by information disorder research from the fields of Communication, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Journalism, Media, Semiotics and New Media Art"--

Author : Ireton, Cherilyn,Posetti, Julie
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Fake news
ISBN : 9789231002816

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Journalism, fake news & disinformation by Ireton, Cherilyn,Posetti, Julie Pdf

Author : Brian David Johnson,Cyndi Coon,Natalie Vanatta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783031025754

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Threatcasting by Brian David Johnson,Cyndi Coon,Natalie Vanatta Pdf

Impending technological advances will widen an adversary’s attack plane over the next decade. Visualizing what the future will hold, and what new threat vectors could emerge, is a task that traditional planning mechanisms struggle to accomplish given the wide range of potential issues. Understanding and preparing for the future operating environment is the basis of an analytical method known as Threatcasting. It is a method that gives researchers a structured way to envision and plan for risks ten years in the future. Threatcasting uses input from social science, technical research, cultural history, economics, trends, expert interviews, and even a little science fiction to recognize future threats and design potential futures. During this human-centric process, participants brainstorm what actions can be taken to identify, track, disrupt, mitigate, and recover from the possible threats. Specifically, groups explore how to transform the future they desire into reality while avoiding an undesired future. The Threatcasting method also exposes what events could happen that indicate the progression toward an increasingly possible threat landscape. This book begins with an overview of the Threatcasting method with examples and case studies to enhance the academic foundation. Along with end-of-chapter exercises to enhance the reader’s understanding of the concepts, there is also a full project where the reader can conduct a mock Threatcasting on the topic of “the next biological public health crisis.” The second half of the book is designed as a practitioner’s handbook. It has three separate chapters (based on the general size of the Threatcasting group) that walk the reader through how to apply the knowledge from Part I to conduct an actual Threatcasting activity. This book will be useful for a wide audience (from student to practitioner) and will hopefully promote new dialogues across communities and novel developments in the area.

Author : Eileen Culloty,Jane Suiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000356670

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Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media by Eileen Culloty,Jane Suiter Pdf

Drawing on research from multiple disciplines and international case studies, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of online disinformation and its potential countermeasures. Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media presents a model of the disinformation process which incorporates four cross-cutting dimensions or themes: bad actors, platforms, audiences, and countermeasures. The dynamics of each dimension are analysed alongside a diverse range of international case studies drawn from different information domains including politics, health, and society. In elucidating the interrelationship between the four dimensions of online disinformation and their manifestation in different international contexts, the book demonstrates that online disinformation is a complex problem with multiple, overlapping causes and no easy solutions. The book’s conclusion contextualises the problem of disinformation within broader social and political trends and discusses the relevance of radical innovations in democratic participation to counteract the post-truth environment. This up-to-date and thorough analysis of the disinformation landscape will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of journalism, communications, politics, and policy as well as policymakers, technologists, and media practitioners. This research received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825227.

Author : Samuel C. Woolley,Philip N. Howard
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Digital Poli
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190931407

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Computational Propaganda by Samuel C. Woolley,Philip N. Howard Pdf

Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic tasks. Some social media bots collect and distribute legitimate information, while others communicate with and harass people, manipulate trending algorithms, and inundate systems with spam. Campaigns made up of bots, fake accounts, and trolls can be coordinated by one person, or a small group of people, to give the illusion of large-scale consensus. Some political regimes use political bots to silence opponents and to push official state messaging, to sway the vote during elections, and to defame critics, human rights defenders, civil society groups, and journalists. This book argues that such automation and platform manipulation, amounts to a new political communications mechanism that Samuel Woolley and Philip N. Noward call "computational propaganda." This differs from older styles of propaganda in that it uses algorithms, automation, and human curation to purposefully distribute misleading information over social media networks while it actively learns from and mimicks real people so as to manipulate public opinion across a diverse range of platforms and device networks. This book includes cases of computational propaganda from nine countries (both democratic and authoritarian) and four continents (North and South America, Europe, and Asia), covering propaganda efforts over a wide array of social media platforms and usage in different types of political processes (elections, referenda, and during political crises).

Author : Li, Honglei
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781466603134

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Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories by Li, Honglei Pdf

"This book gives in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art research on virtual community participation,covering the concept of virtual community participation, followed by several streams of virtual community participation theories"--Provided by publishe

Author : Howard Tumber,Silvio Waisbord
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000346787

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The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism by Howard Tumber,Silvio Waisbord Pdf

This companion brings together a diverse set of concepts used to analyse dimensions of media disinformation and populism globally. The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism explores how recent transformations in the architecture of public communication and particular attributes of the digital media ecology are conducive to the kind of polarised, anti-rational, post-fact, post-truth communication championed by populism. It is both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, consisting of contributions from both leading and emerging scholars analysing aspects of misinformation, disinformation, and populism across countries, political systems, and media systems. A global, comparative approach to the study of misinformation and populism is important in identifying common elements and characteristics, and these individual chapters cover a wide range of topics and themes, including fake news, mediatisation, propaganda, alternative media, immigration, science, and law-making, to name a few. This companion is a key resource for academics, researchers, and policymakers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of political communication, journalism, law, sociology, cultural studies, international politics and international relations.

Author : W. Lance Bennett,Steven Livingston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108843058

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The Disinformation Age by W. Lance Bennett,Steven Livingston Pdf

This book shows how disinformation spread by partisan organizations and media platforms undermines institutional legitimacy on which authoritative information depends.

Author : Miloš Gregor,Petra Mlejnková
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030586249

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Challenging Online Propaganda and Disinformation in the 21st Century by Miloš Gregor,Petra Mlejnková Pdf

Disinformation has recently become a salient issue, not just for researchers but for the media, politicians, and the general public as well. Changing circumstances are a challenge for system and societal resilience; disinformation is also a challenge for governments, civil society, and individuals. Thus, this book focuses on the post-truth era and the online environment, which has changed both the ways and forms in which disinformation is presented and spread. The volume is dedicated to the complex processes of understanding the mechanisms and effects of online propaganda and disinformation, its detection and reactions to it in the European context. It focuses on questions and dilemmas from political science, security studies, IT, and law disciplines with the aim to protect society and build resilience against online propaganda and disinformation in the post-truth era.

Author : James Goodman,Jonathan Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134905546

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Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics by James Goodman,Jonathan Marshall Pdf

Globalised neo-liberalism has produced multiple crises – social, ecological, political. In the past, crises of global order have generated large-scale social transformations, and the current crises likewise hold a transformative promise. Social movements become a crucial barometer, in signalling both the demise and rise of political formations and programs. Elite strategies, framed as crisis management, create their own disordering side-effects. Experiments in movement strategy gain greater significance, as do contending elite efforts at repressing, managing or displacing the fall-out. In this book we investigate both movements and management in the face of crisis, taking crisis and unanticipated consequences as a normal state-of-play. The book enquires into the winners and losers from crisis, and investigates the movement-management nexus as it unfolds in particular localities as well as in broader contexts. The book deals with some of the most pressing conflicts of our time, and produces a range of theoretical insights: the ubiquity of crisis is seen as not only a hallmark of social life, but a way into a different kind of social analysis. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Author : Noelle Molé Liston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Communication in politics
ISBN : 150175078X

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The Truth Society by Noelle Molé Liston Pdf

"This book seeks to understand how the late-twentieth-century era of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, particularly mass mediated information, and in turn, scientific knowledge and forms of governance"--

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780061740961

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Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy Pdf

Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Georgios Terzis,Dariusz Kloza,Elżbieta Kużelewska,Daniel Trottier,Ioulia Konstantinou,University Law
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1780689756

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Disinformation and Digital Media as a Challenge for Democracy by Georgios Terzis,Dariusz Kloza,Elżbieta Kużelewska,Daniel Trottier,Ioulia Konstantinou,University Law Pdf

Through a collection of expert analyses, this book aims to deepen our understanding of the dangers of fake news and disinformation, while also charting well-informed and realistic ways ahead.