Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics

by Hal Roberts, Robert Farris, Yochai Benkler, et al.

Book Overview

Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that new technologies and their manipulation by foreign actors played a decisive role in his victory and are responsible for the sense of a "post-truth" moment in which disinformation and propaganda thrives.

Network Propaganda...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190923636
• ISBN13: 9780190923631
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"