Title: Information nightmare :
Authors: Filibeli, Tirşe Erbaysal
Date: 2020
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Physical description: 206 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC class: P
Abstract: "Today, we live in a post-truth era. Creating alternative realities, and making people believe fake realities become easier. Digital platforms tend to promote dramatic, sensational and emotional content that harms democracy. This book examines different aspects of the matter: rise of populist politics, impact of digital social platforms, engagement-oriented algorithms, spread of disinformation and counter-measures like fact-checking mechanism and developing digital media literacy skills." --
Contents: Yasem Giritli Inceoğlu -- Disinformation warfare in the Post-Truth era : an attempt for classification / Orhan Șener and Hossein Derakhshan -- The state of (dis)information sphere : the rise of fact-checking initiatives / Tirșe Erbaysal Filibeli -- From useful idiots to useful facts : what is behind the fake news debate? / Sarphan Uzunoğlu and Ahmet Alphan Sabancı -- The accuracy crisis of (online) journalism in Turkey : unverified news reports during the 2018 presidential campaign / Can Ertuna -- Breaking news : a look into Turkey's polarized mobile news notifications / Emre Kızılkaya -- Fake news and politics in Italy / Giovanni Brancato and Melissa Stolfi -- Populism and media in Turkey : partners in crime / Burak Özçetin and Ayşegül Akaydın Aydın -- Mapping the mechanics of truth : fake news and suburban young adult news consumers in India / Sushmita Pandit -- Understanding the dark social and shedding light on online deception among children / Sinan Aşçı -- Survival in the new communicative sphere : is media literacy the remedy? / Eylem Yanardağoğlu and Dilara Eldaş Baş -- New literacies for disinformation and manipulation through digital sound and video / Orhan Şener -- Online foreign news : are we capable of recognizing manipulation? : the role of political competence and media literacy context / Vasyl V. Kucherenko -- Digital disorder : the challenges of taming big tech and building trust in journalism / Aidan White.