{"id":23545,"date":"2020-06-09T16:28:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=23545"},"modified":"2020-06-09T16:28:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:28:49","slug":"propaganda-misinformation-new-stuff-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/23545","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda &#038; Misinformation (New Stuff Tuesday)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/propagandamisinformation.jpg\" alt=\"Propaganda and Misinformation Book Cover\" height=\"250\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This newest volume of the &#8220;Reference Shelf&#8221; series looks at propaganda and misinformation (just like the title says) in discrete segments. Each chapter is written by different experts, from the first chapter &#8220;A short guide to the history of &#8216;fake news&#8217; and disinformation&#8221; by Julie Posetti and Alice Matthews of the International Center for Journalists to the final chapter &#8220;Fact checkers say these are the best fact-checks they did during this decade&#8221; by Cristina Tardaguila of The Poynter Institute.  According to the publisher, H W Wilson, this book covers &#8220;Social media posts inciting sectarian violence, government-manipulated misinformation campaigns, for-profit fake news headlines, and well-meaning but gullible individuals promoting conspiracies&#8230;this volume explores the pollution of our information environment and what we can do about it.&#8221; If you are curious about the validity of the news that comes across your social media feeds and other news outlets, this book would be a great place to start.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Propaganda &#038; Misinformation<\/strong><br>\nby Grey House Publishing<br>\nMain Collection, 3rd Floor<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/f\/31ig87\/UWI71478369020002121\">P96.P722 U55 2020<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This newest volume of the &#8220;Reference Shelf&#8221; series looks at propaganda and misinformation (just like the title says) in discrete segments. Each chapter is written by different experts, from the first chapter &#8220;A short guide to the history of &#8216;fake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/23545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1493,167112],"class_list":["post-23545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-new-books","tag-new-stuff-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23549,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23545\/revisions\/23549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}