[Air-L] Fake News

[Johan Dam Farkas]

Highly interesting thread.
I have an upcoming article on cloaked Facebook pages, which discusses fake sources on social media and the epistemological difficulties of analysing such content.

For related literature to the fake news discussion, I would suggest Jessie Daniels' work on cloaked websites (2009, 2014). She draws on Becker (1949) and his typology of disguised propaganda, which is also highly relevant in this context.

Furthermore, I would recommend the books of Andrejevic (2013), Hendricks and Hansen (2014), Berry and Sobieraj (2014), and Floridi (2011) for different perspectives on the topic.

References:

  *   Andrejevic, M (2013) Infoglut: How too much information is changing the way wethink and know. London, New York: Routledge.
  *   Becker, H. (1949). The Nature and Consequences of Black Propaganda. American Sociological Association, 14(2), 221–235.
  *   Berry, J. M. & Sobieraj, S. (2014) The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility. Oxford: Oxford University Press
  *   Daniels, J. (2009a). Cloaked websites: propaganda, cyber-racism and epistemology in the digital era. New Media & Society, 11(5), 659–683. http://doi.org/10.1177/1461444809105345
  *   Daniels, J. (2014). From Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Teenbreaks.com: Anti-abortion Activism’s Use of Cloaked Websites. In M. McCaughey (Ed.) Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web. London: Routledge.
  *   Floridi, L. (2011) The Philosophy of Information. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  *   Hendricks, V., & Hansen, P. G. (2014). How to Take Information Punches and Save Democracy. New York: Springer.

Johan Farkas
IT University of Copenhagen
Mail: jjfs at itu.dk
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Emne: Re: [Air-L] Fake News

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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Marshall <
Jonathan.Marshall at uts.edu.au> wrote:

>
> On the 'fake news' issue I'd like to suggest a book I am co-author of, is
> relevant
>
> Disorder and the Disinformation Society: The Social Dynamics of
> Information, Networks and Software
>
> It basically argues that dis and mis information is absolutely and
> inevitably normal in information society and is generated by patterns of
> communication, sense making, power and commerce.
>
> Disorder of information is produced by the social factors which organize
> information.
>
> The first half of the book expounds the theory, and the second half is
> largely studies of particular aspects of information such as software,
> finance, intellectual copyright, academia and activism.
>
> The book is absurdly expensive which is a function of the factors it
> describes, but you can get a good read of the opening section on Amazon.
>
> You can also find some blog entries based on some of the approach of the
> book at
>
> Trump and the Magic of Information
> https://cmandchaos.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/trump-and-the-
> magic-of-information/
>
> Information mess again
> https://cmandchaos.wordpress.com/2016/12/11/information-mess-again/
>
> jon
>
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