On Rumors (eBook)

How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, and What Can Be Done

Cass R. Sunstein (Autor)

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2014
128 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5122-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University. His previous books include Republic.com 2.0 (Princeton), Infotopia, and Simpler. He is also the author, with Richard Thaler, of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness.

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Many of us are being misled. Claiming to know dark secrets about public officials, hidden causes of the current economic situation, and nefarious plans and plots, those who spread rumors know precisely what they are doing. And in the era of social media and the Internet, they know a lot about how to manipulate the mechanics of false rumors-social cascades, group polarization, and biased assimilation. They also know that the presumed correctives-publishing balanced information, issuing corrections, and trusting the marketplace of ideas-do not always work. All of us are vulnerable.In On Rumors, Cass Sunstein uses examples from the real world and from behavioral studies to explain why certain rumors spread like wildfire, what their consequences are, and what we can do to avoid being misled. In a new afterword, he revisits his arguments in light of his time working in the Obama administration.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2014
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medienrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Accountability • Actual malice • Alan Cantwell • americans • Bad tendency • barack obama • Bill Ayers • Blog • bribery • Bulletin Board • Cass Sunstein • Censorship • Child Abuse • Chilling Effect • Chip Heath • cognitive dissonance • Common Law • Confirmation Bias • Conspiracy Theory • constitutional law • Corruption • credibility • Crime • Criminal charge • cruelty • Death panel • defamation • Deliberation • disaster • Disgust • distrust • Echo chamber (media) • Edition (book) • Exchange of information • Explanation • Extremism • Facebook • False Memory • Falsity • For All Practical Purposes • Fraud • freedom of speech • free society • global warming • Group Polarization • Hoax • hostility • Ideology • Incontrovertible evidence • Institution • Islamic terrorism • Lawsuit • marketplace of ideas • Mass surveillance • misconduct • misinformation • Misrepresentation • newspaper • New York Times Co. v. Sullivan • Nonviolence • Norm (social) • On Truth • Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act • Personally identifiable information • Police brutality • Politician • Politics • popularity • Prediction • Prejudice • privacy • Prosecutor • public figure • Public Interest • Racism • Radicalization • Reasonable Person • Religious Conversion • Requirement • result • Rumor • Self-censorship • Self-Interest • skepticism • Social Influence • social issue • Solomon Asch • Suggestion • Supervisor • terrorism • Theft • The New York Times • Twitter • Urban legend • weapon of mass destruction • Website • What Happened • Whistleblower • Writing • youtube
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5122-X / 140085122X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5122-5 / 9781400851225