Democracy and Fake News: Information Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367479541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str.

Serena Giusti; Elisa Piras

Opis

This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Spis treści

List of figures  List of tables  Notes on contributors  Preface  Introduction: In Search of Paradigms: Disinformation, Fake News, and Post-Truth Politics  Part I: Post-Truth Politics and the Challenges to Democracy  1. Reading Arendt to Rethink Truth, Science and Politics in the Era of Fake News  2. Inequality in the Public Sphere: Epistemic Injustice, Discrimination and Violence  3. Incorporating Intersectionality into AI Ethics  4. How Post-Truth Politics Transformed and Shaped the Outcome of the 2016 Brexit Referendum  5. Information and Democracy: Fake News as an Emotional Weapon  6. Searching for a Unicorn: Fake News and Electoral Behaviour  7. Once Upon Covid-19: A Tale of Misleading Information Going Viral  Part II: From Disinformation to Post-Truth Politics: Evidences from Russia  8. Lie to Live: The Production of a Faked Reality as an Existential Function of Putin's Regime  9. Playing the Russian Disinformation Game: Information Operations from Soviet Tactics to Putin’s Sharp Power  10. Myths and Realities of Putinism in Post-Truth Politics  11. Responding to Alleged Russian Interference by Focusing on the Vulnerabilities That Make It Possible  Part III: Dilemmas of Contrasting Disinformation and Fake News  12. Information Spreading and the Role of Automated Accounts on Twitter: Two Case Studies  13. Radical-Right Political Activism on the Web and the Challenge for European Democracy: A Perspective from Eastern and Central Europe  14. When a Credible Source turns ‘Fake’: The Relotius Affair and the German System for Combatting Fake News  15. "But verifying facts is what we do!": Fact-checking and Journalistic Professional Autonomy  16. The EU Code of Practice on Disinformation and the Risk of the Privatisation of Censorship  Index