{"product_id":"fake-news-the-transformation-of-propaganda-in-the-information-society","title":"Fake News: The Transformation of Propaganda in the Information Society","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eFake News \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubtitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e The Transformation of Propaganda in the Information Society\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubject Classification: \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eSociety and Culture, Language and Linguistics, Politics and Government\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBIC Classification: \u003c\/strong\u003eJF, CF, JP \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBISAC Classification: \u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eSOC052000, LAN004000, POL049000\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Hardback, Paperback, eBook\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Oct 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN (Hardback):\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e978-1-83711-115-2 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN (eBook):\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e978-1-83711-116-9 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN (Paperback): \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e978-1-83711-117-6\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo view a sample of the book, please click \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration:\" underline data-mce-style=\"text-decoration:\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ehere\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ee-books available for libraries from \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProquest\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand \u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEBSCO\u003c\/strong\u003e\n \n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewith non-institutional availability from \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\nGooglePlay\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor larger orders, or orders where you require an invoice, contact us  \u003cspan id=\"cloak8074a48c555b85c31ec4347354a45e96\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\nadmin@ethicspress.com\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThis new book explores the constitution of fake news as a type of discourse, and as socio-communicative phenomenon. The first part deals with the epistemological analysis of fake news which is differentiated from ‘lies’ or ‘false news. Unlike false news, fake news describes real facts partially falsified. The origin of fake news origin lies in the discursive structure of news, and flourishes in the information society where “news” becomes the most popular type of discourse. As a social process fake news consisted of three interconnected pillars; the real facts, the faked facts, and the public’s views on reality (and therefore on faked facts). Hence fake news becomes a main vehicle of propaganda, and a structural phenomenon in politics, business and other fields. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe second part of the book focuses on the sociological analysis of fake news, as conditions which facilitate its flourishing are analyzed: a) the new mode of communication and the internet, b) polarization in domestic and international affairs and the need for more and more propaganda c) the crisis of ideology\/ideologies and the slipping of meaning to an ideological or a broader ideational eclecticism, d) commercialization and the need for more promotional activities, e) changes in the structure of news narratives especially in new media.\u003cbr\u003eThe third part describes the typology of fake news. It analyses the main techniques that are been used in the falsification of facts in news stories. The combination of these techniques can lead to more than 134 million types of fake news. Only a part of these exists nowadays. It’s a matter of socio-cultural and political conditions whether more and more types of fake news will appear in political, commercial etc. communication.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiography\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor(s):\u003c\/span\u003e \n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorge Pleios is a Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Prof. Pleios’ new book is a long-needed intellectual revelation helping us cope with the havoc of fake news we live in. The book starts with the acknowledgement that “A new world has been emerging for some years now in the information sphere. ...This world is a world of fake news, where information about current events that have taken place is mixed with information about events or aspects of events that have not taken place but are instead the product of invention\/fiction.” The author reports the finding of his study of fake news as a peculiar type of content and public discourse, and at the same time a sociological study of fake news as a social phenomenon. The original aspect is the book’s refusal to treat the current wave of fake news as an external assault on “Authentic journalism”. Instead, it provides an internalist diagnosis: the structure of news—its intrisic mixture of event-description with selective interpretation—contains the affordances through which falsification can be made “natural”, especially in the current vain of intensive visualization of information. The book convincingly shows how a contemporary mode of communication, plus an interpretive framework saturated with publicly valid prejudices and stereotypes, and the evolution of hybrid narrative forms mutually reinforce one another until the important delineation between journalism and propaganda is almost nullified. The findings of the study are skillfully illustrated by intriguing examples of a huge spectrum of fake news. This is not a textbook which would teach us how to stay safe and sane in the information society flooded by fake news; rather it is a guide how to navigate our way through the vicissitudes of contemporary Scylla and Charybdis hidden in our public communication.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Prof. Georgi Dimitrov, Department of European Studies, University of Sofia\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethics Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44866807332906,"sku":"vqc1789711302549","price":29.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":44866807365674,"sku":"laq1789711302550","price":79.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":44866807398442,"sku":"ovw1789711302551","price":27.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/0709\/8154\/files\/fake-news-the-transformation-of-propaganda-in-the-information-society_1.jpg?v=1789711307","url":"https:\/\/layerreadywear.shop\/products\/fake-news-the-transformation-of-propaganda-in-the-information-society","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}