Information, Communication & Society
Volume 25, 2022 - Issue 11
Review Essay
Review essay: fake news, and online misinformation and disinformation
Fake news: understanding media and misinformation in the digital age, edited by Melissa Zimdars and Kembrew McLeod, Cambridge, Mass. & London, The MIT Press, 2020, xl + 395 pp., US$38 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-262-53836-7; Lie machines, by Philip N. Howard, New Haven and Oxford, Yale University Press, 2020, xviii + 221 pp., £20 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-300-25020-6; You are here: a field guide for navigating polarized speech, conspiracy theories, and our polluted media landscape, by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner, Cambridge, Mass. & London, The MIT Press, 2021, xii + 266 pp., US$22.95, ISBN 978-0-262-53991-3
Andrew WhiteOxford Brookes University, Oxford, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0793-0142
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0793-0142
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