From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking - neues Buch

EAN (ISBN-13): 9783030229528
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Herausgeber: Springer-Verlag GmbH

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ISBN/EAN: 9783030229528

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Autor des Buches: william james, james cortada
Titel des Buches: urban legends

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Autor/in: William Aspray; James W. Cortada
Titel: History of Computing; From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking - Online Scrutiny in America, 1990-2015
Verlag: Springer; Springer International Publishing
146 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019-08-12
Cham; CH
Sprache: Englisch
35,30 € (DE)
36,30 € (AT)
39,00 CHF (CH)
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X, 146 p. 4 illus., 2 illus. in color.

EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Informatik, EDV/Allgemeines, Lexika; Informatik und Informationstechnologie; Verstehen; Cultural and Political History of the Internet; Debunking of Rumors and Urban legends; Fake Facts; Online Scrutiny; Political Fact-Checking; B; History of Computing; Cultural History; Political History; History of Technology; Computer Science; Technikgeschichte; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte; Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie; Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen; BB

This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms. Reflecting the long history of “fake facts” in America, the book discusses important developments in this area from the emergence of the public Internet in the 1990s to the start of the Trump-Clinton presidential election campaigns.

Topics and features: describes how some of the major players in political fact-checking began with the purpose of scrutinizing and debunking of urban legends; considers how this was part of a wider culture, encompassing B-grade horror movies, truth-or-fiction television shows, and groups warning about computer viruses; explains how such developments are connected, revealing political fact-checking as one of many forms of scrutiny applied in the face of a complex, dangerous world; provides a range of detailed case studies, covering such topics as the rumors surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and academic interest in contemporary legends; discusses how pre-Internet technologies such as bulletin boards, Usenet, and proprietary online service providers such as CompuServe and AOL were used to both disseminate and debunk urban legends; examines the rise of political fact-checking, reviewing all of the major initiatives in this area undertaken in the United States.

This timely study touches on issues of popular culture and major events, and offers profiles of colorful individuals and organizations, and as such will appeal to a broad audience interested in the history of fact-checking and efforts to protect the political process from falsehoods.

The Concept of Scrutiny.- From Debunking Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking.- Urban Legends and Rumors Concerning the September 11 Attacks.- Debunking as Hobby, Entertainment, Scholarly Pursuit, and Public Service.- Recent Political Fact-Checking.- Where Do We Go Next?.

William Aspray Information Research, The Information Society, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Information & Culture: A Journal of History, Communications of the ACM. James W. Cortada Information and Culture, Library and Information History, Business History Review, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Enterprise and Society, Technology and Culture Information and Culture, Library and Information History, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.

This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms. Reflecting the long history of “fake facts” in America, the book discusses important developments in this area from the emergence of the public Internet in the 1990s to the start of the Trump-Clinton presidential election campaigns.

is a Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota.

Topics and features: Dr. William Aspray Participation in Computing: The National Science Foundation’s Expansionary Programs Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing: A Historical and Social Study Dr. James W. Cortada
Presents a unique focus on the origins of political fact-checking through the larger issue of online scrutiny Examines the use of the Internet as a tool for both the spread and the debunking of rumors and falsehoods, and the use of crowdsourcing, apps, and AI to identify good news sources for politics Covers such topics of wide popular interest as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the rise of fake facts in political discourse, and includes profiles of colorful individuals and organizations