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Title
The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media
Subject
Media
Description
There is growing awareness about how social media circulate extreme viewpoints and turn up the temperature of public debate. Posts that exhibit agitation garner disproportionate engagement. Within this clamour, fringe sources and viewpoints are mainstreaming, and mainstream media are marginalized. This book takes up the mainstreaming of the fringe and the marginalization of the mainstream. In a cross-platform analysis of Google Web Search, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and TikTok, we found that hyperpartisan web operators, alternative influencers and ambivalent commentators are in ascendency. The book can be read as a form of platform criticism. It puts on display the current state of information online, noting how social media platforms have taken on the mantle of accidental authorities, privileging their own on-platform performers and at the same time adjudicating between claims of what is considered acceptable discourse.
Creator
Rogers, Richard (editor)
Source
https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/98604
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Date
2023
Contributor
Dewi Puspitasari
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Relation
Achenbach, J. and Johnson, C. Y. (2020, April 30). Studies leave question of “airborne”
coronavirus transmission unanswered. Washington Post. https://www.
washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/29/studies-leave-question-airbornecoronavirus-
transmission-unanswered/.
coronavirus transmission unanswered. Washington Post. https://www.
washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/29/studies-leave-question-airbornecoronavirus-
transmission-unanswered/.
Format
Pdf
Language
English
Type
textbooks
Identifier
DOI
10.5117/9789463720762
10.5117/9789463720762
ISBN
9789463720762
9789463720762
Coverage
Amsterdam