Whether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains accidental mistakesranging from typos to factual errors to errors arising from prejudicial assumptionsand a significant proportion of it also contains deliberate misinformation resulting from various forms of forgery, fakery, and piracy. This exhibition catalogue introduces the work of notorious and lesser-known forgers, it reveals the various ways in which experts and authors have faked their own identitiesranging from carefully-selected pseudonyms to falsified ethnicities to fraudulent credentialsand it explores a number of shady publishing practices. We can all become better readers and better at protecting ourselves from scammers by improving our understanding of the nature of the content before us.
Daugiau informacijos
An exploration of the motives, methods, and impacts of book and document forgers, fakers, and publisher-pirates over centuries.
Acknowledgements
Introduction / Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates
Forgers
Fakers
Publisher-Pirates
Authorized Fakes
Conclusion
Works Cited
Credits
Linda Quirk is a librarian (Bruce Peel Special Collections, University of Alberta, Edmonton) whose research and publications focus on a group of women who, in the nineteenth century, did pioneering work in various fields and whose writings helped to break down the barriers then preventing women from full participation in Canadian society.
