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Virtual unreality just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true?

Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is...

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Main Author: Seife, Charles (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Viking, 2014.
Subjects:
Computer network resources > Evaluation.
Internet > Safety measures.
Internet fraud > Prevention.
Internet literacy.
Electronic information resource literacy.
Summary: Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools--or weapons--for discerning truth from fiction online"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description: vi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index.
ISBN: 9780670026081 (hbk.)
0670026085 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Charles Seife is the author of five previous books, including Proofiness and Zero, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for first nonfiction and was a New York Times notable book. He has written for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, Wired, New Scientist, Science, Scientific American, and The Economist . He is a professor of journalism at New York University and lives in New York City.

 

 

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