Book Title: Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster

Authors: Nina Verishagen and Diane Zerr

Book Description: Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster provides a foundational knowledge of today’s chaotic online information environment. Readers will come to understand various concerning concepts such as information overload and fake news, while engaging in discussions about familiar online entities including trolls, bots and influencers. Each chapter culminates in an important lesson about how to begin to deal with the disaster and take meaningful steps towards becoming responsible digital citizens.

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Contents

Book Information

Book Description

Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster is an accompaniment to an online course with the same title. The first four chapters provide an overview of fundamental concepts and phenomena that have led us to our current online information environment. Chapter 1, Information Disorder, examines information and its evolution, looking briefly at historical and contemporary trends in the areas of misinformation, disinformation, online propaganda and more. Chapter 2, Information Distribution, provides a simple overview of the news industry including journalism and editing, as well as the progression of fake newsa politicized concept which is leading us into a post-truth world. Chapter 3, Information Automation, takes readers through the automatic aspects of information exploration, examining search engines, algorithms, and associated concepts. Chapter 4, Information Manipulation, explores human interactions with information, focusing on how humans share, consume, and interact with information on social media. Each chapter provides the reader with a base level of a specific literacy (information, media, digital and meta) making them better equipped to confront disinformation. The final chapter provides readers with various frameworks and tools for effectively evaluating information and suggests that readers integrate them into their online search behaviors. 

Authors

Nina Verishagen and Diane Zerr

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Subject

Disinformation and misinformation

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Title
Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster
Authors
Nina Verishagen and Diane Zerr
Contributors
Katelyn Haskell and Lynn Caldwell
License

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Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster Copyright © 2023 by Saskatchewan Polytechnic is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Suggested citation:

Verishagen, N., & Zerr, D. (2022). Disinformation: Dealing with the Disaster. Saskatchewan Polytechnic. https://pressbooks.saskpolytech.ca/disinformation/

Primary Subject
Disinformation and misinformation
Institution
Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Publisher
Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Publication Date
March 1, 2023
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