{"product_id":"birth-of-modern-facts-9798216449218","title":"Birth of Modern Facts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames W. Cortada\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He formerly worked at IBM Corporation in a variety of sales, consulting, research, management, and executive positions. His research and writing have focused on the business history of information technology and in the role of information in modern societies. He is the author or editor of more than three dozen books and serves on the editorial board of key journals devoted to the history of information and its technologies. Most recently he co-authored with William Aspray, \u003ci\u003eFake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misinterpretations in America \u003c\/i\u003e(R\u0026amp;L, 2019) and \u003ci\u003eFrom Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking\u003c\/i\u003e (Springer, 2019); and authored\u003ci\u003e Building Blocks of Society: History, Information Ecosystems, and Infrastructures \u003c\/i\u003e(R\u0026amp;L, 2021).","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53213578690903,"sku":"9798216449218","price":35.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/birth-of-modern-facts-9798216449218","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}