Optimising emotions, incubating falsehoods : how to protect the global civic body from disinformation and misinformation /: how to protect the global civic body from disinformation and misinformation. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Vian Bakir, Andrew McStay.
• Authors: Bakir, Vian, 1971-; McStay, Andrew, 1975-
• Contents: Part I Conceptual Tools and Contexts .-1 Optimising Emotion: Introducing the Civic Body .- 2 Core Incubators of False Information Online .- 3 Affective Contexts Worldwide .- 4 The Nature and Circulation of False Information .- 5 Feeling-Into the Civic Body: Affect, Emotions and Moods .- 6 Profiling, Targeting and the Increasing Optimisation of Emotional Life .- Part II Strengthening the Civic Body .-7 Harms to the Civic Body from False Information Online .- 8 Defending the Civic Body from False Information Online .- 9 Strengthening the Civic Body as the Bandwidth for Optimised Emotion Expands.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.30285; Online social networks -- Political aspects; Online social networks -- Psychological aspects; Disinformation; Misinformation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031135514
• Related ISBNs: 9783031135507
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