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Building back truth in an age of misinformation / Leslie F. Stebbins ; foreword by Ethan Zuckerman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]Description: xiv, 191 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781538163146
  • 1538163144
Subject(s):
Contents:
Understand the problem -- Learn to protect ourselves from misinformation -- Teach students to play offense against misinformation -- Design tools to create healthier digital communities -- Require platforms to serve the public interest -- Repair journalism and roll out new curators -- Build new digital public squares.
Summary: "This book provides strategies for building back truth online. It provides solutions so that we can repair our existing social media platforms and build better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 302.231 S811 Available 33111010978381
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-175) and index.

Understand the problem -- Learn to protect ourselves from misinformation -- Teach students to play offense against misinformation -- Design tools to create healthier digital communities -- Require platforms to serve the public interest -- Repair journalism and roll out new curators -- Build new digital public squares.

"This book provides strategies for building back truth online. It provides solutions so that we can repair our existing social media platforms and build better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information"-- Provided by publisher.

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