Politics of disinformation the influence of fake news on the public sphere / edited by Guillermo López-García, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, Dolors Palau-Sampio, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, Bella Palomo, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain, Eva Campos-Domínguez, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain, Pere Masip Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain.

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Publication InfoHoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021.
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Other author/creatorLópez García, Guillermo.
Other author/creatorPalau-Sampio, Dolors, 1974-
Other author/creatorPalomo, Bella, 1974-
Other author/creatorCampos Domínguez, Eva.
Other author/creatorMasip, Pere.
Abstract "Concerns about disinformation have witnessed extraordinary growth since the mid-2010s, despite the spread of false and distorted messages in the public arena not being a new phenomenon. In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary declared 'post-truth' as its word of the year, highlighting a historical and political time in which disinformation strategies reached new heights, fueled by the hybridization of the communicative ecosystem (Chadwick 2013) in a context of increasing polarization and populism. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 or the Brexit referendum the same year were milestones in the awareness of the role manipulative messages play and their effects on political decisions, particularly in times of crisis (Spence, Lachlan, Edwards, and Edwards 2016). Disinformation strategies take advantage of social networks to go viral quickly, and benefit from another of these networks' inherent characteristics: their ability to discriminate and stratify the public according to the most diverse criteria (Wagner and Boczkowski 2019). Any person or company with a sufficiently large and specialized database can now distribute content among the public according to multiple criteria, allowing much more to be known about their tastes, hobbies, opinions, etc. than in the past. In fact, public participation data on social networks (who they follow, in which groups they participate, what content they share, etc.) is one of the main elements that helps increase the effectiveness of the messages sent to the public. The snowball of disinformation can, in fact, feed itself and improve its effectiveness in each wave (Tucker et al. 2018)"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Politics of disinformation Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021. 9781119743231
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