Reality Lost : : Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation.

• Author: Hendricks, Vincent F.
• TeilnehmendeR: Vestergaard, Mads.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2018.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (159 pages)

Table of Contents

Reality Lost -- Prelude -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: The Attention Economy -- 1.1 The Information Society -- 1.2 The Price of Information -- 1.3 The Scarcity of Attention -- 1.4 Information Sources -- 1.5 The Market for Attention -- 1.6 Attention Merchants -- 1.7 Data Collection -- 1.8 Hit Them Where It Hurts -- Chapter 2: The News Market -- 2.1 The King of the Agenda -- 2.2 The Unwanted Candidate -- 2.3 Media Logic -- 2.4 Entertainment as Ideology -- 2.5 The Free Online Market for News -- 2.6 A Channel for the Elite -- Chapter 3: Attention Speculation and Political Bubbles -- 3.1 The Mediatized Society -- 3.2 The Media-Created Political Reality -- 3.3 Where Was Obama Born? -- 3.4 Signal Legislation and Symbol Politics -- 3.5 Political Bubbles -- 3.6 The Substance -- 3.7 Investment and Speculation -- Chapter 4: Alternative Facts, Misinformation, and Fake News -- 4.1 Alternative Facts -- 4.2 Truth in Science and Journalism -- 4.3 Information, Misinformation, and Disinformation -- 4.4 True, False, and Everything in Between -- 4.5 Exaggerations, Omissions, and Cherry Picking -- 4.6 Rumors, Belief Echoes, and Fact Checking -- 4.7 Lies and Bullshit -- 4.8 Fake News as Feigned News -- 4.8.1 For Fun/Trolling -- 4.8.2 Web Traffic/Money -- 4.8.3 Marketing/Sales -- 4.8.4 Propaganda/Power Struggle -- 4.8.5 Merkel the Supervillain -- 4.9 Information Whitewashing -- Chapter 5: Fact Resistance, Populism, and Conspiracy Theories -- 5.1 Truthiness -- 5.2 Inconvenient Facts -- 5.3 Motivated Reasoning -- 5.4 Loyal Lies -- 5.5 Populism: Us-Versus-Them -- 5.6 Social Transmission: Indignation and Fear -- 5.7 Why Do I Suffer? -- 5.8 The Structure of Conspiracy Theories -- Chapter 6: The Post-factual Democracy -- 6.1 The Word of the Year 2016 -- 6.2 Post-factual Democracy -- 6.3 Democratic Beacons.

6.4 Division of Labor as Ideal -- 6.5 The Factual Democracy Is Technocratic -- 6.6 Lies and Deceit -- 6.7 Accountability -- 6.8 Totalitarian Propaganda -- Chapter 7: Epilogue: Digital Roads to Totalitarianism -- 7.1 Digital Emancipation -- 7.2 The Chinese Panopticon -- 7.3 Surveillance Capitalism -- 7.4 Prediction is Profit -- 7.5 Prediction Is Power -- 7.6 Roads to Totalitarianism -- Correction to: Reality Lost -- Correction to: V. F. Hendricks, M. Vestergaard, Reality Lost, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0 -- References.