[SIGCIS-Members] New Books on Fake News & Scrutiny

[Barbara B Walker]

So exciting, congratulations, Jim and Bill! I look forward to reading and to sharing with my students!

In my class “Technology, propaganda and culture in Russian history,” we have been talking about how potentially deceptive the very term “Information Revolution” can be, given that the internet is in many ways more of an opportunity for what humans to do what they like best: tell stories, regardless of accuracy.

Barbara


From: Members <members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of James Cortada <jcortada at umn.edu>
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 6:38 AM
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Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] New Books on Fake News & Scrutiny

Bill Aspray has published two other books this fall that may be of interest to you that he and I co-authored.  Both deal with the role of fake news in American history back to the 1700s, urban legends and how people used the Internet to scrutinize fake facts and rumors from 1990 to 2015.  They can be considered as one large research project published in two parts:

Fake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misinterpretations (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, 312 pp) and From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking: Online Scrutiny in America, 1990-2015 (Springer-Verlag, 2019, 156 pp).

-Jim Cortada

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James W. Cortada
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Charles Babbage Institute
University of Minnesota
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