You Are Here
A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape
$46.37
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2021
Summary
How to Understand a Media Environment in Crisis, and How to Make Things Better by Approaching Information Ecologically
Our media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape.
In You Are Here, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metapho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539913 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262539918 |
| Author: | Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 388g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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” You Are Here… is an invaluable guide to our problems around news, truth and fact.” – New Scientist
“You Are Here… is an invaluable guide to our problems around news, truth and fact.” — New Scientist
About The Author
Whitney Phillips
Whitney Phillips is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and the author of This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things- Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (MIT Press).
Ryan M. Milner is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Charleston and author of The World Made Meme- Public Conversations and Participatory Media (MIT Press).
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