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author, Altinier Andrea, ed. Giornalismi: La difficile convivenza con fake news e misinformation. Libreriauniversitaria.it edizioni, 2018.

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Rogers, Richard. The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463720762.

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There is growing awareness about how social media circulate extreme viewpoints and turn up the temperature of public debate. Posts that exhibit agitation garner disproportionate engagement. Within this clamour, fringe sources and viewpoints are mainstreaming, and mainstream media are marginalized. This book takes up the mainstreaming of the fringe and the marginalization of the mainstream. In a cross-platform analysis of Google Web Search, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and TikTok, we found that hyperpartisan web operators, alternative influencers and ambivalent commentat

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van Dijck, José, Karin van Es, Anne Helmond, and Fernando van der Vlist. Governing the Digital Society. Amsterdam University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048562718.

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Digital technologies have rapidly become integral to communities and societies, bringing both significant benefits and serious concerns. Issues such as misinformation, disinformation, online polarization, discrimination, and widening inequalities have prompted a critical and urgent debate: Can digital societies still be effectively governed? This book brings together insights from various disciplines to address the pressing question: “How can we develop and apply principles of (good) governance in digital societies that are organized democracies?” Governing the Digital Societypresents a range

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Wilson, Amanda J., Catherine Arnott Smith, and Alla Keselman. Combating Online Health Misinformation: A Professional's Guide to Helping the Public. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2022.

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Wilson, Amanda J., Catherine Arnott Smith, and Alla Keselman. Combating Online Health Misinformation: A Professional's Guide to Helping the Public. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2022.

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Antivaccination and Vaccine Hesitancy: A Professional Guide to Foster Trust and Tackle Misinformation. Routledge, 2023.

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Antivaccination and Vaccine Hesitancy: A Professional Guide to Foster Trust and Tackle Misinformation. Routledge, 2023.

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Zimdars, Melissa, and Kembrew McLeod. Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age. MIT Press, 2020.

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Zimdars, Melissa, and Kembrew McLeod. Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age. MIT Press, 2020.

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Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age. MIT Press, 2020.

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Lavorgna, Anita. Information Pollution As Social Harm: Investigating the Digital Drift of Medical Misinformation in a Time of Crisis. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.

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Lavorgna, Anita. Information Pollution As Social Harm: Investigating the Digital Drift of Medical Misinformation in a Time of Crisis. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.

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Lavorgna, Anita. Information Pollution As Social Harm: Investigating the Digital Drift of Medical Misinformation in a Time of Crisis. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.

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Campbell, Andrea Louise, and Michael W. Sances. Constituencies and Public Opinion. Edited by Daniel Béland, Kimberly J. Morgan, and Christopher Howard. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199838509.013.015.

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Public opinion alone cannot explain the trajectory of American social policy, but it is crucial in explaining the nature of social provision. Although most Americans are not highly knowledgeable about or interested in politics, and although their opinions are often shaped by misinformation, misperception, and framing effects, public opinion can offer broad guidance to politicians. Indeed, American social policy reflects majority preferences in a variety of ways: in the differential generosity of programs for "deserving" and "undeserving" target populations; in the extensive use of hidden and o

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Bode, Leticia, and Emily K. Vraga. Observed Correction. Oxford University PressNew York, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197565896.001.0001.

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Abstract People often criticize social media for facilitating the spread of misinformation. This book defines and describes the value of observed correction, which occurs when direct public corrections of misinformation are witnessed by others. The authors offer evidence that observed correction gives people a more accurate understanding of the topic, especially when they remember the corrections. They describe how many people—social media users, public health experts, and fact checkers among them—are conflicted or constrained correctors, who think correction is valuable and want to do it well

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Barker, David C., and Elizabeth Suhay, eds. The Politics of Truth in Polarized America. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197578384.001.0001.

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Abstract In American politics, the truth is rapidly losing relevance. The public square is teeming with misinformation, conspiracy theories, cynicism and hubris. Why has this happened? What does it mean? What can we do about it? In this volume, leading scholars offer multiple perspectives on these questions, and others, to provide the first comprehensive empirical examination of the “politics of truth”—its context, causes, and potential correctives. Combining insights from the fields of political science, political theory, communication, and psychology and offering substantial new arguments an

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Iversen, Les. 6. What can we expect in the future? Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198745792.003.0006.

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‘What can we expect in the future?’ considers changing attitudes to drugs in the 21st century, the current pharmaceutical industry, and the rise of personalized medicines as a result of a greater understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of diseases and lower costs of DNA sequencing. Public attitudes to both medicinal and recreational drugs are changing: the easy availability of information and misinformation on the Internet is affecting vaccination rates in children, patients are researching new drugs, and there is a growing movement towards legalizing cannabis. The escalating costs of

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Goldenberg, Don. COVID's Impact on Health and Healthcare Workers. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780197575390.001.0001.

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The symptoms, risk factors and typical course of mild, moderate and severe COVID-19 infections are detailed, focusing on correlations with hospitalization and death. The physical and emotional toll on healthcare workers is described, as well as the innovations and sacrifices made by physicians, nurses, and hospitals during the pandemic. Present and enduring changes in primary care and mental healthcare, including increased utilization of telemedicine, are explained. The misinformation and disinformation raging during the pandemic and their adverse effect on public health and patient recovery a

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Morris, Burnis R. Carter G. Woodson. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496814074.001.0001.

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Historian Carter G. Woodson’s employment of the black press and modern public-relations techniques to preserve and popularize black history during the first half of the 20th century is rediscovered and examined in this study. This rarely explored side of Woodson, often called “The Father of Black History,” resurrects the lost image of a leading cultural icon who used his celebrity in multiple roles as an opinion journalist, newsmaker, and CEO/publicist of black history to bring veneration to a subject whose past was clouded by misinformation and contempt. During his era, 1915-1950, Woodson cul

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Collins, Donald E. Native American Aliens. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216186915.

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“Collins addresses a subject that has been the object of much research and controversy in the past decade: the internment of tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans during WW II. More specifically, he focuses on the mass renunciation of citizenship by these persons of Japanese ancestry. The author contends that the renunciations were based on misinformation rather than on disloyalty... The book is well written, presenting some new data rather than merely relying on existing documents. The bibiliography is comprehensive for those who may have an interest in the general subject of the treatment

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Cortada, James W. Today's Facts. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881846565.

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This is the third and final volume in a broad study about the role of information largely in the Unites States since the early nineteenth century. This book summarizes how information changed since the early 1800s, what it looks like today, including how it is being influenced by such current circumstances as the role of Big Data, artificial intelligence, misinformation on the Internet, and the automation of decision-making by computers using digital and analog information. It is designed to be read by scholars in multiple disciplines and by the general public. It is the byproduct of 30 years

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Li, Nan, Natalie Jomini Stroud, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Overcoming False Causal Attribution. Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dan M. Kahan, and Dietram A. Scheufele. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190497620.013.46.

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In a study published in 1998 in The Lancet, British researchers Wakefield and colleagues described an association between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and the onset of autism. Although the MMR–autism association failed to replicate and the lead author was discredited, the purported relationship decreased public confidence in vaccine safety. Parents continue to cite the MMR controversy as a factor complicating their decisions about vaccinating their children. This chapter focuses on misinformation involving false causality and discusses how it might exert persistent influence o

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Neudert, Lisa-Maria N. Germany. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190931407.003.0008.

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As concerns over misinformation, political bots, and the impact of social media on public discourse manifest in Germany, this chapter explores the role of computational propaganda in and around German politics. The research sheds light on how algorithms, automation, and big data are leveraged to manipulate the German public, presenting real-time social media data and rich evidence from interviews with a wide range of German Internet experts—bot developers, policymakers, cyberwarfare specialists, victims of automated attacks, and social media moderators. In addition, the chapter examines how th

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Weingart, Peter, Marina Joubert, and Bankole Falade. Science Communication in South Africa: Reflections on Current Issues. African Minds, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/9781928502036.

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Why do we need to communicate science? Is science, with its highly specialised language and its arcane methods, too distant to be understood by the public? Is it really possible for citizens to participate meaningfully in scientific research projects and debate? Should scientists be mandated to engage with the public to facilitate better understanding of science? How can they best communicate their special knowledge to be intelligible? These and a plethora of related questions are being raised by researchers and politicians alike as they have become convinced that science and society need to d

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Cook, Paul. Misinformation Studies and Higher Education in the Postdigital Era. Lexington Books, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978747500.

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In Misinformation Studies and Higher Education in the Postdigital Era: Beyond Fake News, Paul Cook argues that the epistemological complexity of the postdigital age demands a new, metadisciplinary approach to information and media – misinformation studies. Cook posits that institutions of higher education can work toward regaining the public’s trust and reinvigorating general education programs by developing a metadiscipline that directly addresses the problem of misinformation in all its various and dangerous forms. This book outlines how such a curricular pivot may be accomplished in an age

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Schneider, Robert O. When Science and Politics Collide. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216035008.

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This book explains why science and politics collide, why this is an especially critical problem at this precise time in U.S. history, and what should be done to ensure that science and politics coincide. The United States is waging a political war against science, and the stakes are increasing. When it comes to areas in which science and politics must interact, such as genetics, climate, and energy, there are always political interests pushing to spin the relevant science, but this becomes problematic when Americans abandon rationality for ideology or misinformation manufactured to confuse and

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Lepoutre, Maxime. Democratic Speech in Divided Times. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869757.001.0001.

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Democratic Speech in Divided Times offers a comprehensive account of the norms that should govern public discourse in circumstances marked by deep and often unjust social divisions. Part I investigates what forms of democratic speech are desirable in these settings. This part shows, firstly, that some forms of public discourse that are symptomatic of division can nevertheless play a crucial democratic function. In particular, it argues that emotionally charged speech—and most notably, speech voicing deep anger—plays a fundamental role in overcoming entrenched epistemic divisions and in facilit

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Aronczyk, Melissa, and Maria I. Espinoza. A Strategic Nature. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190055349.001.0001.

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A Strategic Nature shows how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over 100 years. More than spin or misinformation, PR is a social and political force that shapes how we understand and address the environmental crises we now face. Drawing on interviews, ethnography, and archival research, Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza offer an original account of the promotional agents who have influenced public perception of the environment since the beginning of the twentieth century, revealing how professional communicators affect how we think about pub

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Zeiser, Pamela A., and Berrin A. Beasley, eds. Social Media Ethics and COVID-19. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978729155.

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Social Media Ethics and COVID-19: Well-Being, Truth, Misinformation and Authenticity explores ways that some of the best and worst moments of the pandemic resulted from the interconnection of social media and ethics. The ethical challenges social media poses for corporate providers, government officials, and users existed well before the outbreak of COVID-19: What responsibility do corporate providers bear for inaccurate information posted by users? What responsibility do users bear? In this “post-truth” and polarized world, who defines “accurate information”? During the height of the COVID-19

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Cordon, Luis A. Popular Psychology. Greenwood, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400699191.

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A lot of what is marketed to the public as psychology is actually quite unscientific. Attempting to counteract the tide of misinformation about what psychology really is,Popular Pscyhology: An Encyclopediais a concise guide for anyone seeking to understand the true scientific nature of psychology. Self-help books; television specials; and articles in the popular press all serve to obscure the true intellectual and scientific premises on which the field of psychology is based. The serious work of the great psychological thinkers and schools of psychological thought is lost to the average person

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Bernecker, Sven, Amy K. Flowerree, and Thomas Grundmann, eds. The Epistemology of Fake News. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863977.001.0001.

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This volume consists of a series of essays on the epistemology of fake news, written by leading philosophers. The epistemology of fake news is a branch of applied epistemology, and an exercise in non-ideal epistemology. It provides insight into the nature and spread of misinformation, fake news, conspiratorial thinking, echo chambers, epistemic pathologies in the formation of public opinion, and the relation between epistemic ideals and fake news. The volume is arranged into three parts. The chapters in Part I are concerned with the meaning of ‘fake news’ and related notions such as ‘conspirac

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Webb, Jeffrey B., ed. Conspiracy Theories. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216171072.

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Provides a comprehensive guide to the history and current shape of conspiracy theories in American life, including the findings of research seeking to understand their origins, type, function, and widespread appeal. This all-in-one resource provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of conspiracy theories past and present, in all their many forms. Taking an even-handed, scholarly approach, the book outlines the longer history of conspiracy theories, starting with Ancient Greece and Rome and continuing the story up to the present day, including analysis of 9/11, anti-vaccine, COVID, and Q

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Ashley, Seth, Jessica Roberts, and Adam Maksl. American Journalism and “Fake News”. ABC-CLIO, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400611148.

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This book provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of the state of American journalism and news-gathering in the 21st century, with a special focus on the rise–and meaning–of ""fake news." A part of ABC-CLIO's Examining the Facts series, which uses evidence-based documentation to examine the veracity of claims and beliefs about high-profile issues in American culture and politics, this volume examines beliefs, claims, and myths about American journalism and news media. It offers a comprehensive overview of the field of American journalism, including contemporary issues and historical fo

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Eastman, Cari Lee Skogberg. Immigration. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400668760.

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What are the myths and truths regarding immigration in the United States? This book provides readers with an impartial understanding of the true state of immigration and immigration policy in the United States by refuting falsehoods, misinformation, and exaggerations surrounding this topic�and confirming the validity of other assertions. Immigration: Examining the Facts provides a one-stop resource for straight answers on the impact�both positive and negative�of immigration trends on the United States. Its coverage of key issues serves students as well as members of the general public who want

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Moskalenko, Sophia, and Clark McCauley. Radicalization to Terrorism. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190862596.001.0001.

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Terrorism and radicalization came to the forefront of news and politics in the US after the unforgettable attacks of September 11th, 2001. When George W. Bush famously asked "Why do they hate us?," the President echoed the confusion, anger and fear felt by millions of Americans, while also creating a politicized discourse that has come to characterize and obscure discussions of both phenomenon in the media. Since then the American public has lived through a number of domestic attacks and threats, and watched international terrorist attacks from afar on television sets and computer screens. The

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Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, Dan M. Kahan, and Dietram A. Scheufele, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Science of Science Communication. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190497620.001.0001.

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The cross-disciplinary Oxford Handbook on the Science of Science Communication contains 47 essays by 57 leading scholars organized into six sections: The first section establishes the need for a science of science communication, provides an overview of the area, examines sources of science knowledge and the ways in which changing media structures affect it, reveals what the public thinks about science, and situates current scientific controversies in their historical contexts. The book’s second part examines challenges to science including difficulties in peer review, rising numbers of retract

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Russell, Jacob Hale, and Dennis Patterson. The Weaponization of Expertise. The MIT Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14877.001.0001.

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The problem with expertise—and the dark side of the equation “knowledge = power.” Experts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us all a grave disservice and, as The Weaponization of Expertise makes painfully clear, given rise to the very populism that all-knowing experts and their elite coterie decry. Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson use the devastating example of the COVID-19 pandemic to illustrate their case, revealing how the hubris of all-too-human experts undermined—perhaps irreparably—public faith in elite policymaking. Paradoxically, by turning science into dogmatis

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Musa, Bala A., and Jim Willis, eds. From Twitter to Tahrir Square. Praeger, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216968887.

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This timely guide examines the influence of social media in private, public, and professional settings, particularly the ethical implications of the cultural changes and trends created by their use. In the quest for quick dissemination of information, web users and content providers find both opportunity and liability in digital broadcasts. Examples abound: Twitter members tap into news reports well in advance of traditional print media, but stories are prone to inaccuracies and misinformation; Facebook shares useful data mined from member profiles, but this sharing often compromises privacy.

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Musa, Bala A., and Jim Willis, eds. From Twitter to Tahrir Square. Praeger, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216968894.

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This timely guide examines the influence of social media in private, public, and professional settings, particularly the ethical implications of the cultural changes and trends created by their use. In the quest for quick dissemination of information, web users and content providers find both opportunity and liability in digital broadcasts. Examples abound: Twitter members tap into news reports well in advance of traditional print media, but stories are prone to inaccuracies and misinformation; Facebook shares useful data mined from member profiles, but this sharing often compromises privacy.

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Minow, Martha. Saving the News. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190948412.001.0001.

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This book argues that US democracy presumes a news industry but that industry currently is failing. It focuses on the contributions of digital platforms and legal rules to the current situation and on the government's responsibilities for alleviating the problem. As the book shows, the First Amendment of the US Constitution assumes the existence and durability of a private industry. Despite some concerns that government action now is not permitted, nothing in the Constitution forecloses government action to regulate concentrated economic power, to require disclosure of who is financing communi

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Bolsover, Gillian. China. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190931407.003.0010.

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Computational propaganda is a growing concern in Western democracies, with evidence of online opinion manipulation orchestrated by robots, fake accounts, and misinformation in many recent political events. China, the country with the most sophisticated regime of Internet censorship and control in the world, presents an interesting and under-studied example of how computational propaganda is used. This chapter summarizes the landscape of current knowledge in relation to public opinion manipulation in China. It addressees the questions of whether and how computational propaganda is being used in

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Sinatra, Gale, and Barbara Hofer. Science Denial. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190944681.001.0001.

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How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children against childhood diseases, or practice social distancing during a pandemic? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions for the benefit of their health and well-being, as well as their communities, nations, and planet. Understanding key psychological explanations for science denial and doubt can help provide a means for improving scientific literacy and understanding—critically important at a time when denial has become deadly. In Science Denial: Why It Happens and

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Kabat, Geoffrey C. Getting Risk Right. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231166461.001.0001.

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Do cell phones cause brain cancer? Does BPA threaten our health? How safe are certain dietary supplements, especially those containing exotic herbs or small amounts of toxic substances? Is the HPV vaccine safe? We depend on science and medicine as never before, yet there is widespread misinformation and confusion, amplified by the media, regarding what influences our health. In Getting Risk Right, Geoffrey C. Kabat shows how science works—and sometimes doesn't—and what separates these two very different outcomes. Kabat seeks to help us distinguish between claims that are supported by solid sci

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Rosner, Lisa. Vaccination. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216031604.

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Everyone has opinions about vaccines, but what are the facts? This resource provides clear, unbiased, and up-to-date information on vaccination, which protects the world's populations not only from pandemics like COVID-19 but other dangerous diseases as well. Each title in the Contemporary Debates series examines the veracity of controversial claims or beliefs surrounding a major political/cultural issue in the United States. They do so to give readers a clear and unbiased understanding of current issues by informing them about falsehoods, half-truths, and misconceptions—and confirming the fac

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Hammond, James W. Poison Gas. Praeger, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400697593.

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The threat of poison gas, and other related biological warfare agents, holds our society hostage to the possible actions of terrorist groups or rogue states. This study hopes to convince policymakers and the general public that the bad reputation that surrounds the use of gas is largely the result of propaganda, misinformation, and oft-repeated half-truths. With proper precautions and discipline, neither the military nor society need fear gas as a weapon of mass destruction, wielded by dictators and cowards who utilize the loopholes in international agreements and flaunt world opinion. While n

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Bedford, Daniel, and John Cook. Climate Change. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400627521.

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Climate change is one of the most controversial and misunderstood issues of the 21st century. This book provides a clear understanding of the issue by presenting scientific facts to refute falsehoods and misinformation-and to confirm the validity of other assertions. Is public understanding of global warming suffering from politically biased news coverage? Is it true that the global scientific community has not reached a consensus on whether humans are causing climate change? This important book addresses these questions and many more about global warming, identifying common claims about clima

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Wurster, Charles F. DDT Wars. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190219413.001.0001.

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DDT Wars is the untold inside story of the decade-long scientific, legal and strategic campaign that culminated in the national ban of the insecticide DDT in 1972. The widespread misinformation, disinformation and mythology of the DDT issue are corrected in this book. DDT contamination had become worldwide, concentrating up food chains and causing birds to lay thin-shelled eggs that broke in the nests. Populations of many species of predatory and fish-eating birds collapsed, including the American Bald Eagle, Osprey, Peregrine Falcon and Brown Pelican. Their numbers recovered spectacularly in

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Ortiz, Steven M. The Sport Marriage. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043161.001.0001.

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Male professional athletes captivate fans and profoundly influence today’s society as part of the $1.3 trillion global sport industry. Although these athletes’ lives and careers are widely reported, scholarly knowledge about the women who support them—their wives—is extremely limited. Because these women’s voices have historically been stifled, their marriages are shockingly misunderstood. Based on findings from the first and only longitudinal study on the sport marriage, this book corrects the abundance of misinformation reported by all forms of media, dispels undeserved stereotypes, and addr

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Bélair-Gagnon, Valérie, and Nikki Usher, eds. Journalism Research That Matters. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197538470.001.0001.

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Despite the looming crisis in journalism, a research–practice gap plagues the news industry. This volume seeks to change the research–practice gap, with timely scholarly research on the most pressing problems facing the news industry today, translated for a non-specialist audience. Contributions from academics and journalists are brought together in order to push a conversation about how to do the kind of journalism research that matters, meaning research that changes journalism for the better for the public and helps make journalism more financially sustainable. The book covers important conc

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Rottenberg, Jonathan. Depression. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190083151.001.0001.

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Depression currently affects more than 15% of the population overall, and it is striking people at increasingly younger ages. Depression is all too familiar, yet this condition remains shrouded in mystery, confusion, and fear. What is depression, exactly? How is it different from sadness? It is said that depression is a “chemical imbalance,” but what does that really mean? Which chemicals are involved, and how are they imbalanced? Why is it that just as more research and treatment resources have been poured into combating depression, its personal and economic toll has actually grown? What, the

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