Disinformation in Open Online Media: 4th Multidisciplinary International Symposium, MISDOOM 2022, Boise, ID, USA by Francesca Spezzano; Adriana Amaral; Davide Ceolin; Lisa Fazio; Edoardo Serra (Editors) This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, MISDOOM 2022, held in October 2022.  The 7 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 full/short paper submissions. The papers focus on health and climate change misinformation, social bots and comment moderation, information seeking and diffusion, misinformation detection, and user perception-based trust models.

Fake News on the Internet by Alan R. Dennis; Dennis F. Galletta; Jane Webster (Editors) This book provides a review of current research in fake news and presents six new empirical research studies examining its impact. Fake news has garnered immense public attention following the 2016 Brexit referendum, three US elections, the 2019 Indian lynchings, and so on. Fake news undermines public life across the globe, especially in countries where journalistic practices and institutions are weak. Some fake news is created to spread ideological messages or to create mischief, whereas other fake news is created for profit. Research shows that fake news spreads farther, faster, and more broadly than true news and has had major societal impacts. All signs indicate that it will get worse as political activists, scammers, alternative news media, and hostile governments become more sophisticated in their production and targeting of fake news. This book features leading scholars who provide a review of the current research and presents six new empirical research studies examining its impact. Some of this research shows how inventions designed to reduce fake news can actually have the opposite effect, and instead act to increase the spread of fake news. Other research takes a longer-term perspective, by measuring or inserting emotions into headlines, allowing us to examine some of the roots of fake news behaviors for future study. This shows how challenging the fake news phenomenon is to solve. Fake News on the Internet will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Media Studies, Research Methods, Information Systems, Communication Studies, Management, Cultural Studies and Sociology. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Management Information Systems.

Freedom of Speech and the Regulation of Fake News by Oreste Pollicino (Editor) This book provides a comparative constitutional analysis of the relationship between freedom of speech and disinformation. In particular, it assesses the constitutional challenges to balance freedom of speech and falsehood, and the approaches adopted to deal with the spread of disinformation.

The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism by Howard Tumber; Silvio Waisbord (Editors) This companion brings together a diverse set of concepts used to analyse dimensions of media disinformation and populism globally. The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism explores how recent transformations in the architecture of public communication and particular attributes of the digital media ecology are conducive to the kind of polarised, anti-rational, post-fact, post-truth communication championed by populism. It is both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, consisting of contributions from both leading and emerging scholars analysing aspects of misinformation, disinformation, and populism across countries, political systems, and media systems. A global, comparative approach to the study of misinformation and populism is important in identifying common elements and characteristics, and these individual chapters cover a wide range of topics and themes, including fake news, mediatisation, propaganda, alternative media, immigration, science, and law-making, to name a few. This companion is a key resource for academics, researchers, and policymakers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of political communication, journalism, law, sociology, cultural studies, international politics and international relations.

מציאות : ממשות, אמת ותפיסה משלל פרספקטיבות by שי פרוגל; רפי מלאך; רפי מן; שמוליק דובדבני; רותי דירקטור; טלי גולדשמיד; יונתן יובל; גולן להט; דורון פרידמן; אביעד קליינברג "מהי המציאות? עד כמה, אם בכלל, ניתן לתפוס אותה? ואולי מדובר באשליה, והמציאות היא כמו בד ציור שעליו כל אחד מצייר בתודעתו? שאלות אלה ואחרות נדונות בפרקי הספר, שהם עיבוד של הרצאות שניתנו במסגרת סדרת האוניברסיטה המשודרת. טובי המרצין והמרצות בארץ יוצאים בספר להרפתקאות אינטלקטואליות בניסיון ללכוד את המציאות על מורכבותה ומסתוריותה בשלל הקשרים: פילוסופיה, תקשורת, משפט, היסטוריה, אמנות ועוד. בעידן דיגיטלי ווירטואלי של פייק ניוז ומציאות מדומה, שבו מושג ה"אמת" איבד מתוקפו, עוסקים המחברים במבוך של פרספקטיבות ונרטיבים מרובים, המייצרים כולם את הקיום המתעתע של זמננו. כך מציע הספר פרספקטיבה מחודשת לצד הזרה כלפי מציאות שכל כך הורגלנו בה עד שכבר הפכה בלתי נראית."