{"product_id":"digital-fever-taming-the-big-business-of-disinformation-9783030895211","title":"Digital Fever: Taming the Big Business of Disinformation","description":"\u003cp\u003eTerror 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslated for the first time into English, \u003ci\u003eDigital Fever\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA blazing tour of the contemporary landscape of fake-news, echo chambers, disinformation, manipulation, and the turbulence that democracy is undergoing, this book not only analyses this digital economy of outrage, but serves as a guiding light to overcome it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030895211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.48d","brand":"Bernhard Poerksen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42389498757301,"sku":"9783030895211","price":23.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_62250f66-3faf-437c-bf12-ca9e54ea5b7f.jpg?v=1663681454","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/digital-fever-taming-the-big-business-of-disinformation-9783030895211","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}