TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vincent F. Hendricks
AU  - Mads Vestergaard
AB  - This open access book looks at how a democracy can devolve into a post-factual state. The media is being flooded by populist narratives, fake news, conspiracy theories and make-believe. Misinformation is turning into a challenge for all of us, whether politicians, journalists, or citizens. In the age of information, attention is a prime asset and may be converted into money, power, and influence – sometimes at the cost of facts. The point is to obtain exposure on the air and in print media, and to generate traffic on social media platforms. With information in abundance and attention scarce, the competition is ever fiercer with truth all too often becoming the first victim. Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation is an analysis by philosophers Vincent F. Hendricks and Mads Vestergaard of the nuts and bolts of the information market, the attention economy and media eco-system which may pave way to postfactual democracy. Here misleading narratives become the basis for political opinion formation, debate, and legislation. To curb this development and the threat it poses to democratic deliberation, political self-determination and freedom, it is necessary that we first grasp the mechanisms and structural conditions that cause it.
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0
ID  - OAPEN ID: 28115
KW  - Misinformation
KW  - Attention Economics
KW  - Donald Trump
KW  - Social Media
KW  - Populism
KW  - Information Age
KW  - Digital Authority
KW  - Information
KW  - Conspiracy Theory
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Politics
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Digitial Slavery
L1  - https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57697
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783030008130
SN  - 9783030008123
TI  - Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulationnull
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