这本书为读者提供了识别、分析和反击来自各个角落的虚假新闻、错误信息和虚假信息的工具。
这本书
•使用真实生动的例子，帮助读者发现假新闻、虚假声明、可疑信息/数据、有偏见的报道和仇恨言论；
•通过案例研究展示在哪里寻找信息、寻找什么、如何分析所涉及的逻辑/不合逻辑，并揭示故事的真实价值；
•讨论事实核查站点、它们检查的内容及其可靠性；
•提供例子并分析阴谋论的组成、目的和后果；
•说明使用数字/数据误导读者的技巧；
•解释如何帮助决定是否相信基于调查的故事结论；
•针对危险、夸张、扭曲和虚假的叙述，提供一系列具体、有效的回应；
•审查对世界各地假新闻、虚假信息和错误信息的政策回应。
这本书是应对信息时代的关键手册，对新闻和大众传播、公共政策、政治和社会科学的学生、学者和专业人士来说是必不可少的阅读材料。它也将成为非专业读者不可或缺的手册。
Fighting Falsehoods: Suspicion, Analysis, and Response
This book offers the reader tools to recognize, analyze, and fight back against the fake news, misinformation, and disinformation that come at us from every corner.
This volume
• Uses real, lively examples to help readers detect fake news, false claims, suspicious information/data, biased reporting, and hate speech;
• Demonstrates through case studies where to look for information, what to look for, how to analyze the logic/illogic involved, and uncover the truth value of a story;
• Discusses fact-checking sites, what they examine, and their reliability;
• Provides examples and analyzes the components, purposes, and consequences of conspiracy theories;
• Illustrates the tricks of using numbers/data to mislead readers;
• Explains what to look for to help decide whether to believe the conclusions of stories based on surveys;
• Offers a range of concrete, effective responses to dangerous, exaggerated, distorted, and false narratives;
• Examines policy responses to fake news, disinformation, and misinformation across the world.
A key manual to negotiate the information age, this book will be essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals of journalism and mass communication, public policy, politics, and the social sciences. It will also be an indispensable handbook for the lay reader.
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