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Digital fever : taming the big business of disinformation / Bernhard Poerksen ; translated by Alison Rosemary Koeck, Wolfram Karl Koeck.

Große Gereiztheit. English

9783030895228 (electronic book)
303089522X (electronic book)
9783030895211 (paperback)
3030895211 (paperback)

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

©2022

English

1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) : illustrations (color).

HM851 .P6713 2022eb

302.231

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.

Translation of: Die grosse Gereiztheit : Wege aus der kollektiven Erregung.
Translated from the German.

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