Wrong : how media, politics, and identity drive our appetite for misinformation
(2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW 305/YOUNG,D

0 Holds on 1 Copy

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Genl Nonfic NEW 305/YOUNG,D Due: 5/28/2024

Details

PUBLISHED
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023
DESCRIPTION

299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781421447759, 1421447754 :, 1421447754, 9781421447759
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

The people. People like us believe these things -- How do we know what we know? -- How did we get so far apart? -- What does my team think? -- What guides my team, intuition or evidence? -- The process. Exemplify us: identity reinforcement through political news -- Separate us: identity distillation through partisan media -- Curate us: identity distillation through social media -- Disrupt us: solutions to identity driven wrongness

"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"--

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