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Author:   Melissa Zimdars
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781041019237

ISBN 10:   1041019238
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   15 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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List of Figures List of Contributors Series Editor Forward Introduction: Mis/Disinformation and Democratic Society Melissa Zimdars Chapter 1: Theorizing the Role of Mis/Disinformation, Digital Democracy, and the Public Sphere Ivanka Pjesivac and Alexia Little Chapter 2: Automating Deception: Generative AI, Disinformation, and the Future of the Liberal Public Sphere Heather Walters Chapter 3: Don’t Blame the Victim for the System: How Paywalls, Bad Digital Design, Prohibitions on Political Talk, and Streaming TV Undermine News Literacy Nikki Usher Chapter 4: News Industry Crises, the Specter of Objectivity, and the Laundering and Amplification of Political Disinformation Melissa Zimdars Chapter 5: Political Misinformation Over the Last Decade Erik Schlicht Chapter 6: Conspiracy Aesthetics Robert N. Spicer Chapter 7: ‘Link in Bio’: Fake Cancer Cures, Radicalization Pathways and Online Harms on TikTok Stephanie Alice Baker Chapter 8: Emotion and Misinformation Acceptance During Public Health Crises: Validation of the Emotional Congruence Hypothesis with the Emotion of Hope Kilhoe Na Chapter 9: Inoculation: An Antidote to Protect Against the Influence of Disinformation About Organizations Michel M. Haigh, Erin Hester, and Youjeong Kim. Chapter 10: Understanding the Third Person Effect in the Context of Online Hate Speech and Disinformation Travis Loof and Jody-Ann Tyson Index

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Melissa Zimdars is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Media at Merrimack College, USA. Her work on mis/disinformation has appeared in numerous academic and popular outlets, including New Media and Society, Social Media + Society, International Journal of Communication, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, the Chronicle Review, and the Washington Post. She has also delivered several keynote lectures about mis/disinformation for local, national, and international professional and academic organizations, and has been interviewed about fake news and mis/disinformation by dozens of news outlets around the world, including the Washington Post, Boston Globe, NPR, BBC, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Scientific American.

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