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.