1st Edition
The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media A Cross-platform Analysis
Edited By Richard Rogers
Copyright 2023
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
There is growing awareness about how social media circulate extreme viewpoints and turn up the temperature of public debate. Posts that exhibit agitation garner disproportionate engagement. Within this clamour, fringe sources and viewpoints are mainstreaming, and mainstream media are marginalized. This book takes up the mainstreaming of the fringe and the marginalization of the mainstream. In a... Read more
Preface, 1. Serious queries and editorial epistemologies: How social media are contending with misinformation, Richard Rogers, 2. Problematic information in Google Web Search? Scrutinizing the results from U.S. election-related queries, Guillen Torres, 3. The scale of Facebook's problem depends upon how fake news is classified, Richard Rogers, 4. When misinformation migrates: Cross-platform posting, YouTube and the deep vernacular web, Anthony Glyn Burton, 5. Fringe players on political Twitter: Source-sharing dynamics, partisanship and problematic actors, Maarten Groen and Marloes Geboers, 6. Twitter as accidental authority: How a platform assumed an adjudicative role during the COVID-19 pandemic, Emillie de Keulenaar, Ivan Kisjes, Rory Smith, Carina Albrecht and Eleonora Cappuccio, 7. The earnest platform: Coverage of the U.S. presidential candidates, COVID-19 and social issues on Instagram, Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo, 8. A fringe mainstreamed, or tracing antagonistic slang between 4chan and Breitbart before and after Trump, Stijn Peeters, Tom Willaert, Marc Tuters, Katrien Beuls, Paul Van Eecke and Jeroen Van Soest, 9. Political TikTok: Playful performance, ambivalent critique and event-commentary, Natalia Sánchez-Querubín, Shuaishuai Wang, Briar Dickey and Andrea Benedetti, Afterword: The misinformation problem and the deplatforming debates, Index.
Biography
Richard Rogers, PhD, is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, and Director of the Digital Methods Initiative. He is author of Information Politics on the Web and Digital Methods (both MIT Press) and Doing Digital Methods (SAGE).
The strength of Richard Rogers' edited volume lies in its thorough empirical investigations, offering insightful cross-platform analysis of how misinformation spreads across various social media. The international consortium of researchers involved provides a comprehensive and data-driven approach, making this book an essential contribution to understanding the challenges posed by misinformation in today's digital landscape.,- Hektor Haarkötter, MEDIENwissenschaft, issue 02, 2024
