Acknowledgementsix
Chapter 1: Introduction: Digital Cultures and Fake News1
Chapter 2: What Is Fake News? Defining Truth17
Chapter 3: The Cultural Emergence of Fake News I: Digital Cultures, Interactive Practices and Artificial Feeds29
Chapter 4: The Cultural Emergence of Fake News II: Postmodernism, Sensationalism and the Hyperreal45
Chapter 5: The Visual in an Era of Hyperreality and Disinformation: The Deepfake Video63
Chapter 6: Fake News and Conspiracy Theories77
Chapter 7: Marginalising the Marginalised: Fake News as a Tool of Populist Power93
Chapter 8: Audiences, Trust and Polarisation in a Post-truth Media Ecology109
Chapter 9: Remedying Disinformation: Communication Practice in a World of Fake News125
Chapter 10: Ethical Practices, Digital Citizenship and Communication Futures139
References153
Index177

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