Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation

Leslie F. Stebbins

doi:10.5771/9781538163153

Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation

Published 2023

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doi.org/10.5771/9781538163153
ISBN print: 978-1-5381-6314-6
ISBN online: 978-1-5381-6315-3
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Zusammenfassung

How can we build back truth online? Here’s how.

How can we build back truth online? In this book, researcher Leslie F. Stebbins provides solutions for repairing our existing social media platforms and building better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information.

Stebbins provides a road map with six paths forward to understand how platforms are designed to exploit us, how we can learn to embrace agency in our interactions with digital spaces, how to build tools to reduce harmful practices, how platform companies can prioritize the public good, how we can repair journalism, and how to strengthen curation to promote trusted content and create new, healthier digital public squares.

New, experimental models that are ethically designed to build community and promote trustworthy content are having some early successes. We know that human social networks—online and off—magnify whatever they are seeded with. They are not neutral. We also know that to repair our systems we need to repair their design.

We are being joined in the fight by some of the best and brightest minds of our current generation as they flee big tech companies in search of vocations that value integrity and public values. The problem of misinformation is not insurmountable. We can fix this.

Schlagworte

Fake News Propaganda journalism disinformation AI Whitelisting Blacklisting Information Literacy Post-Truth Deep Fakes building trust Information Studies Psychology of Information Tools for Combating Disinformation algorithm design social media algorithm social media practices nudges tech ethics civic media literacy library and information science content curation books on fake news books on misinformation information literacy instructions ethical journalism digital communities digital news

Keywords

media literacy media studies misinformation

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Preface
1–8 Introduction 1–8
9–26 1: Understand the Problem 9–26
27–40 2: Learn to Protect Ourselves from Misinformation 27–40
41–52 3: Teach Students to Play Offense against Misinformation 41–52
53–66 4: Design Tools to Create Healthier Digital Communities 53–66
67–80 5: Require Platforms to Serve the Public Interest 67–80
81–98 6: Repair Journalism and Roll Out New Curators 81–98
99–118 7: Build New Digital Public Squares 99–118
119–150 Notes 119–150
151–176 Bibliography 151–176
177–190 Index 177–190
191–192 About the Author 191–192

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