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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Seife, Charles.     Subjects     Internet literacy.     Internet -- Safety measures.     Internet fraud -- Prevention.     Electronic information resource literacy.     Computer network resources -- Evaluation.     Critical thinking.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Seife, Charles.       by title:      Virtual unreality : ...       by call number:      025.04 S459v     Search the Web     Seife, Charles.     Internet literacy.     Internet -- Safety measures.     Internet fraud -- Prevention.     Electronic information resource literacy.     Computer network resources -- Evaluation.     Critical thinking.       MARC Display

Virtual unreality : just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true? / Charles Seife. by Seife, Charles. Viking, 2014. Call #: 025.04 S459v Subjects Internet literacy.   Internet -- Safety measures.   Internet fraud -- Prevention.   Electronic information resource literacy.   Computer network resources -- Evaluation.   Critical thinking. ISBN:  9780670026081 (hc.) 0670026085 (hc.) Description:  248 pages ; 22 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-239) and index. Contents:  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. Summary:  "How to separate fact from fantasy in the digital world. Digital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to control -- even when that information is actually a lie. Charles Seife uses skepticism, wit, and a sharp facility for analysis to take us deep into the Internet information jungle and cut 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 for discerning truth from fiction online. Charles Seife is a professor of journalism and the author of Proofiness : the dark arts of mathematical deception"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 025.04 S459v Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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