An all-in-one guide to understanding and managing the dark side of our digital lives.
What if our assumptions about information and the Internet are not as clear-cut as we would like to believe? We have all confronted a failed search, the frustration of looking at an online trolls obnoxious response in an online forum, malware-infested software, the loss of privacy, and more. But its always the obvious things that we take for granted, like consciousness. Or time. Or information.
A clear definition of information is seemingly simple, but when looked at closely, there is more to it. As ubiquitous as water or air, but when its compromised or misused, it suddenly becomes noticeable. This book will attempt to examine some of the issues related to information that seem to belie its benign nature and will view some of the information pathologies, or negative consequences, inherent to this digital information age. Many of these pathologies are hiding in plain sight:
Fake news Misinformation Disinformation Information overload Surveillance and privacy loss Cyberbullying Hacking and other cybersecurity flaws Online and IT behavioral conditioning
Without a concept to better describe what is happening to us, we may be doomed to repeat these patterns of destructive behavior, manipulated by external forces and conditions into acting in predictable ways, or becoming willing participants giving in to our own worst impulses. The book will help readers identify strategies to understand, avoid, and handle these problems.
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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PART I Information and the Weapons of Mass Distraction |
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1 Into the "Upside-Down": Identifying Our Problem |
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2 Online Behavioral Conditioning |
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3 "Nudged": Why Your Decisions May Not Be Your Own |
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4 Surveillance Capitalism and the "New Economy" |
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PART II Drinking Directly from a Fire Hose: The Impact of Information Glut, Conspiracy Theories, and Internet Balkanization |
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5 Information Overload and How to Combat It |
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6 Conspiracy, Belief, and the Compromising of Research |
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7 "Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?": Ownership of Culture in a Digitized World in Danger of Fragmenting |
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PART III Information and Power |
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8 The Online Surveillance State |
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9 Disinformation, Misinformation, and "Reality" |
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10 The Antisocial Network: Dealing with Online Social Media Misbehaviors and Pathologies |
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PART IV Draining the Fever Swamp |
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11 Combating the Trolls and Bots |
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12 How to Keep Your Privacy--and Still Live in the Real World |
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13 Wide Awake: The Future of Democracy, Digital Commons, and Digital Rights Advocacy |
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| Index |
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| About the Author |
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Andrew Weiss is a digital services librarian at California State University, Northridge. His work is mainly concerned with developing our open access institutional repository and scholarly communication services for CSUNs faculty, staff and students. He helps with the collection of open access faculty publications, ETDs, university archives, data management and data management planning. He also provides guidance and informal advice about copyright and publishers agreements.
Andrews area of research investigates digital publishing, digital collections, massive digital libraries (MDLs), and, lately, big data and information pathologies including privacy, fake news and the proliferation of misinformation. He has written a previous book, Big Data Shocks, and numerous peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings about MDLs, Big Data, privacy, open access, and so on. Additionally, Andrew has written about Open Access and the issues of scholarly communication, too, which also fit within the movement of open science and data management.
As a long-time librarian, Andrew believes balancing the need for privacy with creating public personae in the digital world will continue to be a central problem for our profession.
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