Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation /

Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation /

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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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Main Authors: Bakir, Vian (Author), McStay, Andrew (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
Subjects:
Communication in politics.
Journalism.
Digital media.
Political science.
Mass media.
Artificial intelligence.
Political Communication.
Digital and New Media.
Political Science.
Media Sociology.
Artificial Intelligence.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Conceptual Tools and Contexts .-1 Optimising Emotion: Introducing the Civic Body
  • 2 Core Incubators of False Information Online
  • 3 Affective Contexts Worldwide
  • 4 The Nature and Circulation of False Information
  • 5 Feeling-Into the Civic Body: Affect, Emotions and Moods
  • 6 Profiling, Targeting and the Increasing Optimisation of Emotional Life
  • Part II Strengthening the Civic Body .-7 Harms to the Civic Body from False Information Online
  • 8 Defending the Civic Body from False Information Online
  • 9 Strengthening the Civic Body as the Bandwidth for Optimised Emotion Expands.

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