The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media : A Cross-platform Analysis

The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media A Cross-platform Analysis

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. T...

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Otros Autores: Albrecht, Carina, contributor (contributor), Benedetti, Andrea, contributor (editor), Beuls, Katrien, contributor, Cappuccio, Eleonora, contributor, Colombo, Gabriele, contributor, Dickey, Briar, contributor, Geboers, Marloes Annette, contributor, Burton, Anthony Glyn, contributor, Groen, Maarten, contributor, Keulenaar, Emillie de, contributor, Kisjes, Ivan, contributor, Niederer, Sabine, contributor, Peeters, Stijn, 1957- contributor, Rogers, Richard, contributor, Rogers, Richard, editor, Smith, Rory, contributor, Sánchez-Querubín, Natalia, contributor, Torres Guillén, Jaime, contributor, Tuters, Marc, contributor, Van Eecke, Paul, contributor, Van Soest, Jeroen, contributor, Wang, Shuaishuai, contributor, Willaert, Tom, contributor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press [2023]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Media studies.
Misinformation.
Social media > Political aspects.
Misinformation, digital methods, data journalism, social media platforms.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009724740206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 “Serious queries” and “editorial epistemologies”. How social media are contending with misinformation
  • 2 Problematic information in Google Web Search? Scrutinizing the results from U.S. election-related queries
  • 3 The scale of Facebook’s problem depends upon how “fake news” is classified
  • 4 When misinformation migrates. Cross-platform posting, YouTube and the deep vernacular web
  • 5 Fringe players on political Twitter. Source-sharing dynamics, partisanship and problematic actors
  • 6 Twitter as accidental authority. How a platform assumed an adjudicative role during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • 7 The earnest platform . U.S. presidential candidates, COVID-19, and social issues on Instagram
  • 8 A fringe mainstreamed, or tracing antagonistic slang between 4chan and Breitbart before and after Trump
  • 9 Political TikTok . Playful performance, ambivalent critique and event-commentary
  • Afterword: The misinformation problem and the deplatforming debates
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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