Local tags: Media Literacy Collection (Keywords) and FORMAT: BIB

How do people come to believe in misinformation? How and why does it spread? And what can we do about it? In 'Foolproof', one of the world's leading experts in social psychology, Dr Sander van der Linden, aka Cambridge's 'Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher' describes how to inoculate oneself a...

Chinese president Xi Jinping declaring nuclear warbasketball legend Michael Jordan winning the World Cup. The only limit is the imagination. In a time where fake news and disinformation is becoming harder and harder to identify, it is more essential than ever to understand the dark origins of dee...

'Web of Lies' is a fascinating examination of the rising threat of far-right extremist thought in Ireland and internationally. It examines how these movements utilise the online world to spread disinformation, polarising society in the process. In an accessible style, 'Web of Lies' presents the r...

A Big Tech exec pulls back the curtain on the unseen forces at work labeling you, tracking you, and triggering you - deciding your employability, quality of life, and even whether you should live or die - because what you don't know about them could actually hurt you.

We all live online now: the line between the internet and IRL has become porous to the point of being meaningless. Roisin Kiberd knows this better than anyone. She has worked for tech startups and as the online voice of a cheese brand; she's witnessed the bloated excesses of tech conferences and ...

The book that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about data, privacy and the future of Big Tech. 'We are currently living in a moment of extreme pessimism about data. This book will change your mind.' Almost everything we do generates data. Digital technology is now so perva...

"The Media Savvy Middle School Classroom is a practical guide for teachers of grades 5-8 who need to educate their students with media literacy skills. Today's fake news, alternative facts, and digital manipulations are compromising the critical thinking and well-being of middle-grade learners al...

This volume examines the phenomenon of fake news by bringing together leading experts from different fields within psychology and related areas, and explores what has become a prominent feature of public discourse since the first Brexit referendum and the 2016 US election campaign. Dealing with m...

With a foreword by Karlin Lillington, well-known author and environmentalist Séan McDonagh demonstrates that the same tools that we use to connect, protect and support us can also be put to use in ways that have a huge negative impact on our privacy, our freedom and our life choices. McDonagh ar...