Rob Cover (RMIT University, Australia), Ashleigh Haw (University of Melbourne, Australia), Jay Thompson (RMIT University
Fake News in Digital Cultures presents a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication, arguing that fake news is not an alien phenomenon undertaken by bad actors, but a logical outcome of contemporary digital and popular culture, conceptual changes meaning and truth, and shifts in the social practice of trust, attitude and creativity. Looking not to the problems of the present era but towards the continuing development of a future digital media ecology, the authors explore the emergence of practices of deliberate disinformation. This...
Fake News in Digital Cultures presents a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication, arguin...