
$25.48
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
16 November 2020
Summary
Weaponized Words: Navigating the Disinformation Age
A Times and Guardian Book of the Year
‘Quietly frightening.’ - Guardian ‘Essential reading.’ - Irish Times ‘Consistently chilling.’ - Herald ‘Shocking and entertaining.’ - Daily Telegraph
When information is a weapon, everyone is at war.
We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9780571338641 |
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ISBN-10: | 057133864X |
Author: | Peter Pomerantsev |
Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 288 |
Release Date: | 16 November 2020 |
Weight: | 240g |
Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
About The Author
Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at the LSE and a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, studying twenty-first-century information manipulation and how to fix it. An author and TV producer, he is a widely cited expert on disinformation and media, and writes for publications including the Guardian, Granta, the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. His first book, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, won the 2016 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and was nominated for the Samuel Johnson, Guardian First Book, Pushkin House and Gordon Burn prizes. It has been translated into over a dozen languages.
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