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The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-platform Analysis

There is growing awareness about how social media circulate extreme viewpoints and turn up the temperature of public debate. Posts that exhibit agitation garner disproportionate engagement. Within this clamour, fringe sources and viewpoints are mainstreaming, and mainstream media are marginalized. This book takes up the mainstreaming of the fringe and the marginalization of the mainstream. In a cross-platform analysis of Google Web Search, Facebook, YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, 4chan and TikTok, we found that hyperpartisan web operators, alternative influencers and ambivalent commentators are in ascendency. The book can be read as a form of platform criticism. It puts on display the current state of information online, noting how social media platforms have taken on the mantle of accidental authorities, privileging their own on-platform performers and at the same time adjudicating between claims of what is considered acceptable discourse.

ISBN
9789463720762
Sprache
Englisch

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Thema
Misinformation
digital methods
data journalism
social media platforms

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rogers, Richard
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Amsterdam University Press
(wo)
Amsterdam
(wann)
2023

DOI
doi:10.5117/9789463720762
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Buch

Beteiligte

  • Rogers, Richard
  • Amsterdam University Press

Entstanden

  • 2023

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