1st Edition

Infodemic in the Era of Post-Truth

By Yan Su Copyright 2024
144 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

With the revolution in information technology, concerns about the proliferation of false, unverified, and misleading information have been growing. As one of the severe public health crises in modern history, the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a novel context for the "post-truth" research. In a "post-truth" era, people are no longer interested in investigating objective facts, but tend to curl up... Read more
1. Conceptualizing the “Post-truth” 2. Information Sources and News Consumption Habitus 3. Social Media as a Pandora’s Box 4. News Media Literacy as a Silver Lining 5. Concluding Remarks

Biography

Yan Su is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University, China. Dr. Su specialises in media effects, emerging communication technologies, health communication, and computational social sciences.