The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9463720766 ISBN 13 : 9789463720762

Editeur : Amsterdam University Press, 2023

Synopsis

There is growing awareness about how social media circulate extreme viewpoints and turn up the temperature of public debate. Posts that exhibit agitation garner disproportionate engagement. Within this clamour, fringe sources and viewpoints are mainstreaming, and mainstream media are marginalized. This book takes up the mainstreaming of the fringe and the marginalization of the mainstream. In a cross-platform analysis of Google Web Search, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and TikTok, we found that hyperpartisan web operators, alternative influencers and ambivalent commentators are in ascendency. The book can be read as a form of platform criticism. It puts on display the current state of information online, noting how social media platforms have taken on the mantle of accidental authorities, privileging their own on-platform performers and at the same time adjudicating between claims of what is considered acceptable discourse.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Richard Rogers, PhD, is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Director of the Digital Methods Initiative. He is author of Information Politics on the Web and Digital Methods (both MIT Press) and Doing Digital Methods (SAGE).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Amsterdam University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9463720766
• ISBN 13: 9789463720762
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Éditeur: Rogers Richard
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