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This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what mus...

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Έκδοση: Springer Nature 2023
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-607802024-03-27T14:15:06Z Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods Bakir, Vian McStay, Andrew media ecology emotional AI disinformation politics of emotion economies of emotion digital activism fake news political communication thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYQ Artificial intelligence This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a rich, empirical, and interdisciplinary literature that examines multiple countries, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of Communications, Journalism, Politics, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Information Science, as well as global and local policymakers and ordinary citizens interested in how to prevent the spread of false information worldwide, both now and in the future. 2023-01-20T16:53:17Z 2023-01-20T16:53:17Z 2022 book ONIX_20230120_9783031135514_8 9783031135514 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60780 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-13551-4.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-13551-4 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-13551-4 10.1007/978-3-031-13551-4 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 9783031135514 Palgrave Macmillan 280 Cham open access
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