Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods: How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation 1st Edition

Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods: How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031135507,3031135504,9783031135514, 3031135512

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3031135512
• ISBN-13: 9783031135514
• Author: Vian Bakir, Andrew McStay

This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a rich, empirical, and interdisciplinary literature that examines multiple countries, the book will be of interest to scholars and students of Communications, Journalism, Politics, Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Information Science, as well as global and local policymakers and ordinary citizens interested in how to prevent the spread of false information worldwide, both now and in the future.

Table contents:

1. Optimising Emotion: Introducing the Civic Body
2. Core Incubators of False Information Online
3. Affective Contexts Worldwide
4. The Nature and Circulation of False Information
5. Feeling-Into the Civic Body: Affect, Emotions and Moods
6. Profiling, Targeting and the Increasing Optimisation of Emotional Life
7. Harms to the Civic Body from False Information Online
8. Defending the Civic Body from False Information Online
9. Strengthening the Civic Body as the Bandwidth for Optimised Emotion Expands

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