Andrew Weiss

Dark Side of Our Digital World

And What You Can Do about It

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book will help readers identify strategies to understand, avoid and handle fake news, misinformation, disinformation, information overload, surveillance and privacy loss, cyberbullying, hacking and other security flaws, and online and IT behavioral conditioning.

Produktdetails

• LITA Guides
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781538192184
• ISBN-10: 1538192187
• Artikelnr.: 69728596

Autorenporträt

Andrew Weiss is a digital services librarian at California State University, Northridge. His work is mainly concerned with developing our open access institutional repository and scholarly communication services for CSUN's faculty, staff and students. He helps with the collection of open access faculty publications, ETDs, university archives, data management and data management planning. He also provides guidance and informal advice about copyright and publisher's agreements. Andrew's area of research investigates digital publishing, digital collections, massive digital libraries (MDLs), and, lately, big data and information pathologies - including privacy, fake news and the proliferation of misinformation. He has written a previous book, Big Data Shocks, and numerous peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings about MDLs, Big Data, privacy, open access, and so on. Additionally, Andrew has written about Open Access and the issues of scholarly communication, too, which also fit within the movement of open science and data management. As a long-time librarian, Andrew believes balancing the need for privacy with creating public personae in the digital world will continue to be a central problem for our profession. He lives in Los Angeles with his family.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of illustrations and tables
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Preface: The dark side of our digital world
Part I: Information and the weapons of mass-distraction
Chapter 1: Into the 'upside-down': identifying our problem
Chapter 2: Online Behavioral Conditioning
Chapter 3: 'Nudged': Why your decisions may not be your own
Chapter 4: Surveillance capitalism and the 'New Economy'
Part II: Drinking directly from a firehose: the impact of information glut,
conspiracy theories, and Internet Balkanization
Chapter 5: Information overload and how to combat it
Chapter 6: Conspiracy, belief, and the compromising of research
Chapter 7: "Whose culture is it, anyway?" Ownership of culture in a
digitized world in danger of fragmenting
Part III: Information and Power
Chapter 8: The Online Surveillance State
Chapter 9: Disinformation, misinformation, and "reality"
Chapter 10: The Anti-social network: Dealing with online social media
misbehaviors and pathologies
Part IV: Draining the fever swamp
Chapter 11: Combating the Trolls and 'Bots
Chapter 12: How to keep your privacy - and still live in the real world
Chapter 13: Wide Awake: The future of democracy, digital commons and
digital rights advocacy
About the Author
Index