Politics of Disinformation

By: Guillermo Lopez Garcia - editor, Dolors Palau Sampio - editor, Bella Palomo - editor, Eve Campos Dominguez - editor, Pere Masip - editor

Narrated by: Asa Siegel

Discover a comprehensive exploration of the underlying theories of disinformation, and their impact, from leading voices in the field.

Politics of Disinformation delivers a thorough discussion of the overwhelming problem of modern fake news in the political arena. The book reviews fundamental theoretical concepts of disinformation and analyzes the impact of new techniques of misinformation and the dissemination of false information in the public space. A group of distinguished authors provide case studies to illustrate the effect of disinformation all around the world; including, but not limited to Europe, the Middle East, and South America.

The chapters include examination of topics such as the rise of populism, the increasing political influence of social networks, the use of fact checking to combat fake news and echo chambers, and comparative analyses of how disinformation affects conservatives and liberals. A final case study examines all of these factors as they relate to the recent Spanish election of 2019 and how they affected the results.

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Tough to follow

I can only hope this is easy to install. I can appreciate the author’s desire to share information share sources and methods of data collection. It does seem exhausted and I commend the authors for this. As for entertainment, this is not the audio book for me.