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Information Disorder: Algorithms and Society

Information Disorder: Algorithms and Society

Filimowicz, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Algorithms and Society

General ComputersGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032290773
ISBN13: 9781032290775
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2023
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book focuses on the recent rise of infodemics as forms of disinformation, misinformation and mal-information saturate contemporary media platforms, shaping public opinion to advance agendas.

The internet in general and social media in particular have relativized, through their global, complex and instantaneous information flows, assumptions about truth and authority in fact-based content. This has created new opportunities for state actors to use information beyond traditional conceptions of propaganda to directly assault a public's conception of reality. Additionally, almost anyone has the capability to challenge evidential claims through narratives and imagery alone as there is a wide appetite online for alternative realities. This requires new approaches to media literacy in education, the creative arts and our acts of media consumption and dissemination. The volume covers the ways that social media platforms amplify and catalyze the messages of politicians and influencers, the ambivalence of algorithms that can both generate and detect problematic information, how fake news imitates the style of memes to gain widespread social traction and virality, and how artists have intentionally created sicko AIs in new media performances to highlight the ethical risks of increasingly intelligent technologies.

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