Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods : How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation / / by Vian Bakir, Andrew McStay.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (280 p.) |
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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.