Digital Fever: Taming the Big Business of Disinformation

by Bernhard Poerksen

Book Overview

Terror 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.

Translated for the first time into English, Digital Fever analyses the patterns of outrage and agitation that have come to define social media and the Internet, exposing their devastating impact...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030895211
• ISBN13: 9783030895211
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"