Jay Daniel Thompson – författare

Fake News in Digital Cultures presents a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication, arguing that fake news is not an alien phenomenon undertaken by bad actors, but a logical outcome of contemporary digital and popular culture, conceptual changes meaning and truth, and shifts in the social practice of trust, attitude and creativity.

Looking not to the problems of the present era but towards the continuing development of a future digital media ecology, the authors explore the emergence of practices of deliberate disinformation. This includes the circulation of misleading content or misinformation, the development of new technological applications such as the deepfake, and how they intersect with conspiracy theories, populism, global crises, popular disenfranchisement, and new practices of regulating misleading content and promoting new media and digital literacies.

Fake News in Digital Cultures presents a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication, arguing that fake news is not an alien phenomenon undertaken by bad actors, but a logical outcome of contemporary digital and popular culture, conceptual changes meaning and truth, and shifts in the social practice of trust, attitude and creativity.

Looking not to the problems of the present era but towards the continuing development of a future digital media ecology, the authors explore the emergence of practices of deliberate disinformation. This includes the circulation of misleading content or misinformation, the development of new technological applications such as the deepfake, and how they intersect with conspiracy theories, populism, global crises, popular disenfranchisement, and new practices of regulating misleading content and promoting new media and digital literacies.

This book provides an introduction to digital media content production in the twenty-first century. It explores the kinds of content production that are undertaken in professions that include journalism, public relations and marketing. The book provides an insight into content moderation and addresses the legal and ethical issues that content producers face, as well as how these issues can be effectively managed. Chapters also contain interviews with media professionals, and quizzes that allow readers to consolidate the knowledge they have gathered through their reading of that chapter. 

Dieses Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Produktion digitaler Medieninhalte im einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Dabei werden die Inhalte aus den Berufsfeldern Journalismus, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Marketing  behandelt. Das Buch gibt einen Einblick, wie Inhalte präsentiert werden und befasst sich mit den rechtlichen und ethischen Fragen, mit denen sich die Produzenten von Inhalten konfrontiert sehen, sowie mit der Frage, wie diese Probleme erfolgreich bewältigt werden können. Die Kapitel enthalten auch Interviews mit Medienfachleuten und Quizfragen, die es den Lesern ermöglichen, das durch die Lektüre des jeweiligen Kapitels erworbene Wissen zu festigen.