Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation
This open access book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, fake news, conspiracy theories and make-believe. Misinformation is turning into a challenge for all of us, whether politicians, journalists, or citizens. In the ag...
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| author | Vincent F. Hendricks Mads Vestergaard |
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| description | This open access book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, fake news, conspiracy theories and make-believe. Misinformation is turning into a challenge for all of us, whether politicians, journalists, or citizens. In the age of information, attention is a prime asset and may be converted into money, power, and influence – sometimes at the cost of facts. The point is to obtain exposure on the air and in print media, and to generate traffic on social media platforms. With information in abundance and attention scarce, the competition is ever fiercer with truth all too often becoming the first victim. Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation is an analysis by philosophers Vincent F. Hendricks and Mads Vestergaard of the nuts and bolts of the information market, the attention economy and media eco-system which may pave way to postfactual democracy. Here misleading narratives become the basis for political opinion formation, debate, and legislation. To curb this development and the threat it poses to democratic deliberation, political self-determination and freedom, it is necessary that we first grasp the mechanisms and structural conditions that cause it. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-576972023-12-20T18:09:19Z Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation Vincent F. Hendricks Mads Vestergaard P87-96 Misinformation Attention Economics Donald Trump Social Media Populism Information Age Digital Authority Information Conspiracy Theory Democracy Politics Philosophy Digitial Slavery bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio This open access book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, fake news, conspiracy theories and make-believe. Misinformation is turning into a challenge for all of us, whether politicians, journalists, or citizens. In the age of information, attention is a prime asset and may be converted into money, power, and influence – sometimes at the cost of facts. The point is to obtain exposure on the air and in print media, and to generate traffic on social media platforms. With information in abundance and attention scarce, the competition is ever fiercer with truth all too often becoming the first victim. Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation is an analysis by philosophers Vincent F. Hendricks and Mads Vestergaard of the nuts and bolts of the information market, the attention economy and media eco-system which may pave way to postfactual democracy. Here misleading narratives become the basis for political opinion formation, debate, and legislation. To curb this development and the threat it poses to democratic deliberation, political self-determination and freedom, it is necessary that we first grasp the mechanisms and structural conditions that cause it. 2021-02-12T00:56:38Z 2021-02-12T00:56:38Z 2018-09-11 16:38:15 2019 book 28115 9783030008130 9783030008123 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57697 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030008123?wt_mc=ThirdParty.SpringerLink.3.EPR653.About_eBook#otherversion=9783030008130 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0 Springer Nature https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 549a40fc-eea6-4e98-aed2-ce8b109eae87 9783030008130 9783030008123 144 Carlsberg Foundation; University of Copenhagen open access |
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