Virtual unreality
Subtitle: just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true?
By: Charles Seife
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780670026081
Subjects: Safety measures; Electronic information resource literacy; Internet literacy; Internet fraud; Internet; Computer network resources; Evaluation; Prevention
Description: Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Catching the stupid bug; title: Appeal to authority; title: An army of one; title: Telling fake people from real; title: The loneliness of the interconnected; title: Copy, right?; title: Scarcity; title: All hat, no cattle; title: White noise and the Red Queen; title: Artificial unintelligence; title: Make money fast; title: Companies : private, public, and shady; title: This is your brain; title: Living in the raw.