Handbook of research on deception, fake news, and misinformation online /
"This book examines the various aspects of deceptive behavior and deceptive communication on social media. It also explores fake news and misinformation, character assassination and libel, online financial scams, romance scams, business deceits and commercial lies, political deceptions, and rel...
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IGI Global,
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Publisher Address: | Hershey, Pennsylvania : |
Publication Dates: | 2019. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-5225-8535-0 |
Summary: |
"This book examines the various aspects of deceptive behavior and deceptive communication on social media. It also explores fake news and misinformation, character assassination and libel, online financial scams, romance scams, business deceits and commercial lies, political deceptions, and religious lies"-- |
Carrier Form: | 44 PDFs (xxv, 651 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781522585374 |
Access: | Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. |
Index Number: | PN4784 |
CLC: | G206.2 |
Contents: | Section 1. Introduction: concepts and perspectives. Chapter 1. Understanding online falsehood from the perspective of social problem ; Chapter 2. Trolls, bots, and whatnots: deceptive content, deception detection, and deception suppression ; Chapter 3. Factors influencing gossiping behavior in social chatting platforms ; Chapter 4. Misleading media portrayals in a globalized world: justification of state control through an orientalist lens ; Chapter 5. "Too good to be true": semi-naked bodies on social media ; Chapter 6. Not a girl, not yet a woman: a critical case study on social media, deception, and Lil Miquela ; Chapter 7. Toward a theoretical model of authentic and fake user-generated online reviews -- Section 2. Fake news and misleading reports. Chapter 8. The fundamental roles of technology in the spread of fake news ; Chapter 9. "Ridiculous and untrue FAKE NEWS!": the impact of labeling fake news ; Chapter 10. Fake online news: rethinking news credibility for the changing media environment ; Chapter 11. Fake news and information warfare: an examination of the political and psychological processes from the digital sphere to the real world ; Chapter 12. New mythologies of fake news: whatsapp and misrepresented scientific achievements of ancient India ; Chapter 13. The rise of professional facebook content generators in Vietnam: a fake news campaign against the Betibuti founder ; Chapter 14. Social media and the challenges of curtailing the spread of fake news in Nigeria -- Section 3. Misinformation and deception in business. Chapter 15. On the alert for share price manipulation and inadvertent disclosure in social media channels: an exploratory investigation of Nordic companies ; Chapter 16. Understanding and countering misinformation about climate change -- Section 4. Propaganda, defamation, and political deception. Chapter 17. The pragmatics of political deception on Facebook ; Chapter 18. False information narratives: the IRA's 2016 presidential election Facebook campaign ; Chapter 19. The art of deception in political advertising: a study of Nigeria's 2015 presidential election campaigns ; Chapter 20. Profiting from the "Trump bump": the effects of selling negativity in the media ; Chapter 21. Troll farm: anonymity as a weapon for online character assassination -- Section 5. Phishing, email scams, and ponzi schemes. Chapter 22. "Attention beneficiary...!": assessing types and features of scam emails ; Chapter 23. "Truth," lies, and deception in ponzi and pyramid schemes -- Section 6. Deceptive online dating and romance scam. Chapter 24. The role of deceptive communication and gender in shaping online dating interactions: a discursive approach ; Chapter 25. Online romance in the 21st century: deceptive online dating, catfishing, romance scams, and "mail order" marriages -- Section 7. Online religious deception. Chapter 26. Patterns of deceptive communication of social and religious issues in social media: representation of social issues in social media ; Chapter 27. "Type amen" or perish!: religious deception on Facebook -- Section 8. Deceptive content by extremist and terrorist groups. Chapter 28. Deception in online terrorist propaganda: a study of ISIS and Boko Haram ; Chapter 29. Persuasive propaganda: an investigation of online deceptive tactics of Islamist, white, and Zionist extremists. |