Digital Fever: Taming the Big Business of Disinformation

Poerksen, Bernhard; Koeck, Alison Rosemary; Koeck, Wolfram Karl

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 analysesthis digital economy of outrage, but serves as a guiding light to overcome it.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2022-04-04

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783030895211

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89522-8

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 213