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Wrong : how media, politics, and identity drive our appetite for misinformation / Dannagal Goldthwaite Young. |
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Publication Info. |
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. |
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©2023 |
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Description |
299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-291) and index. |
Contents |
Part I. The people : Chapter 1. People like us believe these things -- Chapter 2. How do we know what we know? -- Chapter 3. How did we get so far apart? -- Chapter 4. What does my team think? -- Chapter 5. What guides my team, intuition or evidence? -- Part II. The process : Chapter 6. Exemplify us: identity reinforcement through political news -- Chapter 7. Separate us: identity distillation through partisan media -- Chapter 8. Curate us: identity distillation through social media -- Chapter 9. Disrupt us: solutions to identity driven wrongness. |
Summary |
"In this book, the author offers a new model that identifies social and cultural identity-who we are and who we want to be-as the most important factor driving the American phenomena of being wrong"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Group identity -- United States.
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Belonging (Social psychology) -- United States.
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Truthfulness and falsehood.
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Error.
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Added Title |
How media, politics, and identity drive our appetite for misinformation |
ISBN |
9781421447759 (hardcover) : $29.95 |
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1421447754 (hardcover) |
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ISBN |
9781421447759 (hardcover) : $29.95 |
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1421447754 (hardcover) |
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