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Book SynopsisToday, we live in a post-truth era. Creating alternative realities, and making people believe fake realities become easier. Digital platforms tend to promote dramatic, sensational and emotional content that harms democracy. This book examines different aspects of the matter: rise of populist politics, impact of digital social platforms, engagement-oriented algorithms, spread of disinformation and counter-measures like fact-checking mechanism and developing digital media literacy skills.
"Journalists, academics and civil society groups are increasingly working together to help people confront the confusion caused by the post-truth realities of digital communications, which is no longer the stuff of propaganda from the state, but comes from all sides of the internet. In this information space every fact is challenged by an alternative fact, and all of these different versions of the truth look the same online."
– Aidan White
Table of ContentsForeword.................................................................................................................... 9
Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu
Acknowledgments ................................................................................................. 13
Contributors ........................................................................................................... 15
1. Disinformation Warfare in the Post-Truth Era: An Attempt for Classification ..................................................................................................... 21
Orhan Şener and Hossein Derakhshan
2. The State of (Dis)information Sphere: The Rise of Fact-Checking Initiatives ........................................................................................................... 33
Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli
3. From Useful Idiots to Useful Facts: What Is Behind the Fake News Debate? .............................................................................................................. 49
Sarphan Uzunoğlu and Ahmet Alphan Sabancı
4. The Accuracy Crisis of (Online) Journalism in Turkey: Unverified News Reports During the 2018 Presidential Campaign ............................. 63
Can Ertuna
5. Breaking News: A Look into Turkey’s Polarized Mobile News Notifications ...................................................................................................... 77
Emre Kızılkaya
6. Fake News and Politics in Italy ......................................................................... 93
Giovanni Brancato and Melissa Stolfi
7. Populism and Media in Turkey: Partners in Crime .................................... 107
Burak Özçetin and Ayşegül Akaydın Aydın
Contents14
8. Mapping the Mechanics of Truth: Fake News and Suburban Young Adult News Consumers in India .................................................................... 125
Sushmita Pandit
9. Understanding the Dark Social and Shedding Light on Online Deception among Children ............................................................................ 139
Sinan Aşçı
10. Survival in the New Communicative Sphere: Is Media Literacy the Remedy? .......................................................................................................... 155
Eylem Yanardağoğlu and Dilara Eldaş Baş
11. New Literacies for Disinformation and Manipulation Through Digital Sound and Video ............................................................................... 169
Orhan Şener
12. Online Foreign News: Are We Capable of Recognizing Manipulation?: The Role of Political Competence and Media Literacy Context ............................................................................................. 181
Vasyl V. Kucherenko
Afterword. Digital Disorder: The Challenges of Taming Big Tec ................... 197
Aidan White
List of Figures ......................................................................................................... 207
List of Tables ........................................................................................................... 209
