"Is fake news merely news with which one disagrees? Donald Trump's use of the term notwithstanding, the editors of this collection argue that fake news is a real problem and is on the rise thanks to converging political, economic, social, and technological factors. These include practices in journalism, technological disruptions of news creation and consumption, and the impact of regulatory debates and policy decisions. This collection provides a truly interdisciplinary exploration of fake news in all of its iterations and complexities within the U.S. Too often discussions of fake news take place in isolated spheres at conferences devoted specifically to media literacy, computer science, or journalism. Considerations of the ways in which these areas interact, overlap, and contradict each other we will be useful for thinking through the past influences, present challenges, and future solutions to different kinds of mis/disinformation"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction /Melissa Zimdars -- Politics. The political function of fake news : disorganized propaganda in the era of automated media / Mark Andrejevic -- Ways of seeing...what you want : flexible visuality and image politics in the post-truth era / Gina Giotta -- A case against the post-truth era : revisiting Mouffe's critique of consensus-based democracy / Johan Farkas -- You're fake news : the problem with accusations of falsehood / Whitney Phillips -- Journalism. Journalism and the new information ecosystem : responsibilities and challenges / Claire Wardle -- Native advertising as counterfeit news / Theodore L. Glasser, Sheng Zou, and Anita Varma -- The Second Amendment vs. the First : the NRA's constitutional bias perspective on fake news / Dawn R. Gilpin -- Media credibility before "fake news" : interpreting an antiabortion activist undercover video / Colin Doty -- Law and policy. Confronting the misinformation society : Facebook's "fake news" is a symptom of unaccountable monopoly power / Victor Pickard -- Fixing fake news : self-regulation and technological solutionism / Stephanie Ricker Schulte -- The scourge of disinformation-assisted hate propaganda / Cherian George -- Fake news and open channels of communication / Paul Levinson -- Social media. Fake news fingerprints / Dan Faltesek -- Reddit's alt-right : toxic masculinity, free speech, and /r/The_Donald / Adrienne Massanari -- Fake memetics : popular rhetoric and circulation in political campaigns / Benjamin Burroughs -- Weaponizing #fakenews in a visual war on journalism : seeing a big picture through Instagram / Leslie-Jean Thornton -- Reception. Mental shortcuts, emotion, and social rewards : the challenges of detecting and resisting fake news / Nicholas David Bowman and Elizabeth Cohen -- Source credibility and belief in fake news : I'll believe you if you agree with me / Danielle Polage -- Technology, propaganda, and the limits of the human intellect / Panagiotis Takis Metaxas -- History. A prehistory of fake news in America / Kembrew McLeod -- Beware the theory in conspiracy theories / Benjamin Peters -- "The intel on this wasn't 100 percent" : fake news and concerns over the modern democratic project / Mark Brewin -- Media hoaxes and satire. An oral history of the yes men -- An interview with the yes men / Kembrew McLeod -- All "fake news" is not equal / Sophia A. McClennen -- Solutions. Platforms throw content moderation at every problem / Tarleton Gillespie -- Normalizing fake news in an age of platforms / Paul Mihailidis -- Teaching "fake news" and resisting the privilege of forgetting / Amanda Ann Klein -- Viral "fake news" lists and the limitations of labeling and fact-checking / Melissa Zimdars.