[Air-L] Fake News

Yosem Companys ycompanys at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 13:38:38 PST 2016


More on fake news:

Google Won't Alter the Holocaust-Denying Results For ‘Did the Holocaust
Happen’
http://gizmodo.com/google-wont-alter-the-holocaust-denying-results-for-di-1790025043

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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