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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Main Author: Rogers, Richard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2023
Routledge
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition:1
Subjects:
Computing and Information Technology
Cultural and media studies
data journalism
Data processing Computer science
Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides
digital methods
Economics, Finance, Business and Management
Industry and industrial studies
Internet guides and online services
KNTP2 News media and journalism
Media studies
Media, entertainment, information and communication industries
Misinformation
Publishing industry and journalism
Social media / social networking
social media platforms
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Misinformation, digital methods, data journalism, social media platforms
Digital and Social Media
Social Networking
COMPUTERS
Disinformation and misinformation
South
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Media studies
AUP Wetenschappelijk
Media studies: internet, digital media and society
Media, information and communication industries
Web
Journalism
SOCIAL SCIENCE
News media and journalism
Film, Media, and Communication
problematic information
content moderation
digital methods
misinformation
hyperpartisan
platform criticism
fringe media
fake news
cross-platform analysis
ISBN:9463720766, 9789463720762, 9789048554249, 9048554241, 1041188919, 9781041188919
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: "Serious queries" and "editorial epistemologies": How social media are contending with misinformation -- Chapter 2: Problematic information in Google Web Search?: Scrutinizing the results from U.S. election-related queries -- Chapter 3: The scale of Facebook's problem depends upon how "fake news" is classified -- Chapter 4: When misinformation migrates: Cross-platform posting, YouTube and the deep vernacular web -- Chapter 5: Fringe players on political Twitter: Source-sharing dynamics, partisanship and problematic actors -- Chapter 6: Twitter as accidental authority: How a platform assumed an adjudicative role during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 7: The earnest platform: U.S. presidential candidates, COVID-19, and social issues on Instagram -- Chapter 8: A fringe mainstreamed, or tracing antagonistic slang between 4chan and Breitbart before and after Trump -- Chapter 9: Political TikTok: Playful performance, ambivalent critique and event-commentary -- Afterword: The misinformation problem and the deplatforming debates -- Bibliography -- Index