Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA compelling exploration of the psychological factors behind misinformation and belief.
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Library JournalDannagal Goldthwaite Young's insightful book
Wrong investigates the political and philosophical reasons why people rely on information that they know is false.
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Foreword ReviewsAn intriguing deep dive into the current American information environment.
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Publishers WeeklyMisinformation has been a topic of increasing concern in recent years, and in
Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, Dannagal Goldthwaite Young examines the unique cultural structures in the United States that make its citizens particularly susceptible.[
Wrong] offers valuable insight and works to strengthen democracy and the social connectedness still possible in the United States.
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Shelf AwarenessRecognizing how deep this crisis goes leaves us in a difficult place. Getting people to reject demonstrable lies isn't simply a matter of bludgeoning them with facts. As the communications scholar Dannagal Goldthwaite Young writes in 'Wrong: How Media, Politics and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation' (2023), the impulse to berate and mock people who believe conspiratorial falsehoods will typically backfire....Building trust requires cultivating...social connection instead of torching it. But extending compassionate overtures to people who believe things that are odious and harmful is risky too.
—Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
PART I
1. "People Like Us Believe These Things."
2. How do we Know What we Know?
3. America's Asymmetrical Identity Alignment
4. I'm One of Them: Social Identity
5. The Epistemic Divide: "People Like Us Understand the World This Way."
PART II
6. How Political News Rewards Identity Performances and Activates Identity Threat
7. Separate Me: Identity Distillation through Partisan Media
8. Curate Me: Identity Distillation Through Social Media
9. Solutions to Identity-Driven Wrongness
