The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media (eBook, ePUB)

A Cross-platform Analysis
Redaktion: Rogers, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 cross-platform analysis of Google Web Search, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and TikTok, the authors found that hyperpartisan web operators, alternative influencers and ambivalent commentators are in ascendency. The book can be read as a form of platform criticism. It puts on display the current state of information online, noting how social media platforms have taken on the mantle of accidental authorities, privileging their own on-platform performers and at the same time adjudicating between claims of what is considered acceptable discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040799444
• Artikelnr.: 75562150

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.