Wrong : how media, politics, and identity drive our appetite for misinformation /

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Author / Creator:Young, Dannagal G., author.
Imprint:Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
©2023
Description:299 pages : illustrations, charts, photographs ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13297988
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ISBN:9781421447759
1421447754
9781421447766
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"In this book, the author offers a new model that identifies social and cultural identity-who we are and who we want to be-as the most important factor driving the American phenomena of being wrong"--
Table of Contents:
  • 0. Preface
  • 0. Acknowledgements
  • 0. PART I
  • 1. "People Like Us Believe These Things."
  • 2. How do we Know What we Know?
  • 3. America's Asymmetrical Identity Alignment
  • 4. I'm One of Them
  • 5. The\Epistemic Divide
  • 0. PART II
  • 6. How Political News Rewards Identity Performances and Activates Identity Threat
  • 7. Separate Me
  • 8. Curate Me
  • 9. Solutions to Identity-Driven Wrongness