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The Resource You are here : a field guide for navigating polarized speech, conspiracy theories, and our polluted media landscape, Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner

You are here : a field guide for navigating polarized speech, conspiracy theories, and our polluted media landscape, Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner

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"How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically. Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map. Phillips and Milner describe how our poisoned media landscape came into being, beginning with the Satanic Panics of the 1980s and 1990s--which, they say, exemplify "network climate change"--and proceeding through the emergence of trolling culture and the rise of the reactionary far right (as well as its amplification by journalists) during and after the 2016 election. They explore the history of conspiracy theories in the United States, focusing on those concerning the Deep State; explain why old media literacy solutions fail to solve new media literacy problems; and suggest how we can navigate the network crisis more thoughtfully, effectively, and ethically. We need a network ethics that looks beyond the messages and the messengers to investigate toxic information's downstream effects."--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 267 pages)
Contents
  • Introduction : mapping network pollution
  • The devil's in the deep frames
  • The root of all memes
  • Tilling bigoted lands, sowing bigoted seeds
  • The gathering storm
  • Cultivating ecological literacy
  • Choose your own ethics adventure
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9780262361385
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You are here : a field guide for navigating polarized speech, conspiracy theories, and our polluted media landscape
Title
You are here
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a field guide for navigating polarized speech, conspiracy theories, and our polluted media landscape
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Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner
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Language
eng
Summary
"How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically. Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map. Phillips and Milner describe how our poisoned media landscape came into being, beginning with the Satanic Panics of the 1980s and 1990s--which, they say, exemplify "network climate change"--and proceeding through the emergence of trolling culture and the rise of the reactionary far right (as well as its amplification by journalists) during and after the 2016 election. They explore the history of conspiracy theories in the United States, focusing on those concerning the Deep State; explain why old media literacy solutions fail to solve new media literacy problems; and suggest how we can navigate the network crisis more thoughtfully, effectively, and ethically. We need a network ethics that looks beyond the messages and the messengers to investigate toxic information's downstream effects."--
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ProQuest Ebook Central resource page, viewed September 29, 2021
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MITPR
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1983-
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Phillips, Whitney
Dewey number
302.23/1
Index
index present
LC call number
TK5105.878
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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Milner, Ryan M.
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  • Internet
  • Social media
  • Fake news
  • Disinformation
  • Propaganda
  • Media literacy
  • Disinformation
  • Fake news
  • Internet
  • Media literacy
  • Propaganda
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You are here : a field guide for navigating polarized speech, conspiracy theories, and our polluted media landscape, Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner
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unknown
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Introduction : mapping network pollution -- The devil's in the deep frames -- The root of all memes -- Tilling bigoted lands, sowing bigoted seeds -- The gathering storm -- Cultivating ecological literacy -- Choose your own ethics adventure
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1202266353
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 267 pages)
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online
Isbn
9780262361385
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • 12436
  • 9780262361385
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remote
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(OCoLC)1202266353
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You are here : a field guide for navigating polarized speech, conspiracy theories, and our polluted media landscape, Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner
Publication
Copyright
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction : mapping network pollution -- The devil's in the deep frames -- The root of all memes -- Tilling bigoted lands, sowing bigoted seeds -- The gathering storm -- Cultivating ecological literacy -- Choose your own ethics adventure
Control code
1202266353
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 267 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780262361385
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 12436
  • 9780262361385
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
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unknown
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unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1202266353

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