Digital fever : taming the big business of disinformation / Bernhard Poerksen ; translated by Alison Rosemary Koeck, Wolfram Karl Koeck.
Pörksen, Bernhard, author.; Translation of: Pörksen, Bernhard. Grosse Gereiztheit.; Koeck, Alison Rosemary, translator.; Koeck, Wolfram Karl, translator.
2022
HM851 .P6713 2022eb
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Title Digital fever : taming the big business of disinformation / Bernhard Poerksen ; translated by Alison Rosemary Koeck, Wolfram Karl Koeck.
Author Pörksen, Bernhard, author.
Uniform Title Große Gereiztheit. English
ISBN 9783030895228 (electronic book)
303089522X (electronic book)
9783030895211 (paperback)
3030895211 (paperback)
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) : illustrations (color).
Call Number HM851 .P6713 2022eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.231
Summary Terror warnings, fake news, spectacles and scandals in real time the networked world has wound itself up into a nervous frenzy, where everything has become visible: the banal and the terrible, the uninhibited abuse and the anonymous attack. Translated for the first time into English, Digital Fever analyses the patterns of outrage and agitation that have come to define social media and the Internet, exposing their devastating impact on our notions of truth, debate, authority and power. In this endless cycle of outrage, Poerksen argues that the intelligent use of information must become part of the general education provided by schools: the digital society must be transformed into an editorial one. In order for democracy to survive, we must as a society achieve media maturity. A blazing tour of the contemporary landscape of fake-news, echo chambers, disinformation, manipulation, and the turbulence that democracy is undergoing, this book not only analyses this digital economy of outrage, but serves as a guiding light to overcome it.
Note Translation of: Die grosse Gereiztheit : Wege aus der kollektiven Erregung.
Translated from the German.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Added Author Translation of: Pörksen, Bernhard. Grosse Gereiztheit.
Koeck, Alison Rosemary, translator.
Koeck, Wolfram Karl, translator.
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Chapter One - The Crisis of Truth: or the suspicion of manipulation
Chapter Two - The Crisis of Discourse: or the diminishing of the gatekeepers
Chapter Three - The Crisis of Authority: or the pains of visibility
Chapter Four - The Crisis of Cosiness: or the collapse of contexts
Chapter Five - The Crisis of Reputation: or the omnipresence of scandals
Chapter Six - The Tangible Utopia of an Editorial Society.

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