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 Wikip...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Virtual unreality : |b just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true? / |c Charles Seife. |
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Catching the stupid bug -- Appeal to authority -- An army of one -- Telling fake people from real -- The loneliness of the interconnected -- Copy, right? -- Scarcity -- All hat, no cattle -- White noise and the Red Queen -- Artificial unintelligence -- Make money fast -- Companies : private, public, and shady -- This is your brain -- Living in the raw. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Computer network resources |x Evaluation. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Internet |x Safety measures. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Internet fraud |x Prevention. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Internet literacy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Electronic information resource literacy. | |
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