In the midst of an ‘infodemic’, we’ve identified books that are taking the fight against fake news to the written page. Whether you prefer e-books or the old-fashioned paperback or hardback, these books about fake news and misinformation are worth adding to your library.
In the midst of an ‘infodemic’, we’ve identified books that are taking the fight against fake news to the written page. Whether you prefer e-books or the old-fashioned paperback or hardback, these books about fake news and misinformation are worth adding to your library.
Listing of 50 recent books exploring disinformation and fake news.
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EU Disinfo Lab. October 2022.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, MISDOOM 2022, held in October 2022.
The 7 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 full/short paper submissions. The papers focus on health and climate change misinformation, social bots and comment moderation, information seeking and diffusion, misinformation detection, and user perception-based trust models.
Samuel Woolley
The Student View. November 17, 2023.
An innovative and timely new media literacy program, aimed at equipping teachers with the necessary skills to support their students in identifying truthful, reliable, and trustworthy information online, has now launched.
Resource Hub: https://thestudentview.org/resources-hub/
MIT Press. November 13, 2023.
As misinformation and its deceptive counterpart, disinformation, continue to surge, the distinct mission of UP is increasingly jeopardized. The MIT Press takes pride in combating the proliferation of both misinformation and disinformation through the publication of rigorous, high-quality scholarship. In celebration of University Press Week and the theme "speak UP," a selection of our recent books is curated to actively dismantle falsehoods and uphold truth in scholarship.
Notre Dame News. Brandi Wampler & Jessica Sieff. November 17, 2023.
The era of fake news feels brand-new. But a new book, “A History of Fake Things on the Internet,” takes a deeper look into the origins of online deception.
“There’s this conventional narrative about fake news and manipulated imagery on the internet. But when I started to actually research this and looking into the history, it was very apparent to me that these are very long-standing issues,” said author Walter Scheirer, the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.
Guardian. David Smith. March 16, 2024
In Attack from Within, ex-national security prosecutor Barbara McQuade looks at the history of how lies are widely spread.
Barbara McQuade’s new book, Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America, explores how the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth has been weaponised to consolidate power in the hands of the few, and undermines legal structures.