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Misbelief [sound recording] : what makes rational people believe irrational things / by Ariely, Dan,author.(CARDINAL)354827; Jones, Simon,1950-narrator.(CARDINAL)327077;
Read by Simon Jones.Misinformation affects all of us on a daily basis, from social media to larger political challenges, from casual conversations in supermarkets to even our closest relationships. While we recognize the dangers that misinformation poses, the problem is complex, far beyond what policing social media alone can achieve, and too often our limited solutions are shaped by partisan politics and individual interpretations of truth. In Misbelief, preeminent social scientist Dan Ariely argues that to understand the irrational appeal of misinformation, we must first understand the behavior of 'misbelief, ' the psychological and social journey that leads people to mistrust accepted truths, entertain alternative facts, and even embrace full-blown conspiracy theories. Misinformation, it turns out, appeals to something innate in all of us, on the right and the left, and it is only by understanding this psychology that we can blunt its effects. Grounded in years of study as well as Ariely's own experience as a target of disinformation, Misbelief is an eye-opening and comprehensive analysis of the psychological drivers that cause otherwise rational people to adopt deeply irrational beliefs. Using the latest research, Ariely reveals the key elements, emotional, cognitive, personality, and social, that drive people down the funnel of false information and mistrust, showing how under the right circumstances, anyone can become a misbeliever. Yet Ariely also offers hope. Even as advanced artificial intelligence has become capable of generating convincing fake news stories at an unprecedented scale, he shows that awareness of these forces fueling misbelief makes us, as individuals and as a society, more resilient to its allure. Combating misbelief requires a strategy rooted not in conflict, but in empathy. The sooner we recognize that misbelief is above all else a human problem, the sooner we can become the solution ourselves.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Misinformation.; Disinformation.; Online manipulation.; Belief and doubt;
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Keanu Reeves is not in love with you : the murky world of online romance fraud / by Holmes, Becky,author.(CARDINAL)890952;
Includes bibliograhical references."Online romance fraud is a problem across the globe. It causes financial and emotional devastation, yet many people refuse to take it seriously. This is the story of one middle-aged woman in a cardigan determined to understand this growing phenomenon. No other woman has had so many online romances - from Keanu Reeves to Brad Pitt to Prince William - and Becky Holmes is a favourite among peacekeeping soldiers and oil rig workers who desperately need iTunes vouchers. By winding up scammers and investigating the truth behind their profiles, Becky shines a revealing, revolting and hilarious light on a very shady corner of the internet. Featuring first-hand accounts of victims, examples of scripts used by fraudsters, a look into the psychology of fraud and of course plenty of Becky's hysterical interactions with scammers, this is a must-read for anyone who needs a reminder that Keanu Reeves is NOT in love with them."--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Autobiographies.; Anecdotes.; Holmes, Becky.; Online dating; Swindlers and swindling.; Online manipulation.; Fraud.; Online dating.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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There is no Ethan : how three women caught America's biggest catfish / by Akbari, Anna,author.(CARDINAL)415019;
"There is no Ethan" catalogs Akbari's experiences as both victim and investigator of a catfishing scheme to emotionally con women. She joins with two other women to track down the perpetrator and explores what it means to live in a world where technology mediates relationships and truth, reality, and identity have become slippery terms.
Subjects: Biographies.; Akbari, Anna.; Online dating.; Swindlers and swindling; Online manipulation.; Internet fraud.; Online dating.;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 17
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Verified : how to think straight, get duped less, and make better decisions about what to believe online / by Caulfield, Mike,author.(CARDINAL)885359; Wineburg, Samuel S.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-255) and index.Introduction -- Get quick context: it can take as little as thirty seconds - seriously! -- Cheap signals: or, how not to get duped -- Google: the bestie you thought you knew -- Lateral reading: using the web to read the web -- Reading the room: benefiting from expertise when you have only a bit yourself -- Show me the evidence: why scholarly sources are better than promotional materials, newsletters, and random tweets -- Wikipedia: not what your middle school teacher told you -- Video games: the dirty tricks of deceptive video -- Stealth advertising: when ads masquerade as news -- Once more with feeling: using your emotions to find the truth -- Conclusion: critical ignoring -- Postscript: large language models, ChatGPT, and the future of verification."The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly. The result is that we often react hastily, without taking a moment to verify the source or get a quick read on a claim before engaging with a viral piece of media. Information literacy experts Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg help us identify red flags, gain a quick sense of context, and make more efficient use of websites like Google and Wikipedia that can help and hinder in equal measure. This how-to guide will teach you to use the web to verify the web, quickly and efficiently, including how to: Verify news stories and other events in as little as thirty seconds (seriously); Determine if the article you're citing is by a reputable scholar or a quack; Detect the slippery tactics scammers use to make their sites look credible; Decide in a minute if that shocking video is truly shocking; Deduce who's behind a site -- even when its ownership is cleverly disguised; Uncover if that feature story is actually a piece planted by a foreign government; And so much more. Building on research-based techniques like SIFT and lateral reading, Verified will help students and anyone else looking to get a handle on the internet's endless flood of information through quick, practical, and accessible steps." --
Subjects: Informational works.; Information literacy.; Internet fraud.; Internet literacy.; Internet searching.; Online manipulation.; Verification (Empiricism);
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Misbelief : what makes rational people believe irrational things / by Ariely, Dan,author.(CARDINAL)354827;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-298) and index.Demonized: An introduction that you should read even if you are the kind of person who usually skips introductions -- Part I. The funnel of misbelief -- How could that person believe that thing? ; The funnel at work ; Part II. The emotional elements and the story of stress -- Pressure, stress, bending, and breaking ; Picking a villain as a way to regain control ; Part III. The cognitive elements and the story of our dysfunctional information-processing machinery -- Our search for the truth we want to believe in ; Working hard to believe what we already believe ; Part IV. The personality elements and the story of our individual differences -- Lessons on personality from alien abductees ; An attempt to classify the role of personality in the funnel of misbelief ; Part V. The social elements and the story of tribalism -- Ostracism, belonging, and the social attraction of misbelief ; The social accelerator ; Par VI. Misbelief, trust, and the story of our future -- Can we afford to trust again--and can we afford not to? ; Why superman gives me hope: a final word (not really)."Misinformation affects all of us on a daily basis, from social media to larger political challenges, from casual conversations in supermarkets to even our closest relationships. While we recognize the dangers that misinformation poses, the problem is complex, far beyond what policing social media alone can achieve, and too often our limited solutions are shaped by partisan politics and individual interpretations of truth. ... Ariely argues that to understand the irrational appeal of misinformation, we must first understand the behavior of 'misbelief,' the psychological and social journey that leads people to mistrust accepted truths, entertain alternative facts, and even embrace full-blown conspiracy theories. Misinformation, it turns out, appeals to something innate in all of us, ... and it is only by understanding this psychology that we can blunt its effects"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Misinformation.; Disinformation.; Conspiracy theories.; Online manipulation.; Belief and doubt;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 32
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A history of fake things on the Internet / by Scheirer, Walter J.,author.(CARDINAL)884577;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-228) and index.Restyling reality -- On the virtual frontier of the imagination -- Photoshop fantasies -- Cheat codes for life -- Speculative sleuths -- Virtualized horror -- Dreams of a clairvoyant AI -- Creative spaces."As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner-and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the point where faked texts, images, and video content are nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true. Computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins of fake news, conspiracy theories, reports of the paranormal, and other deviations from reality that have become part of mainstream culture, from image manipulation in the nineteenth-century darkroom to the literary stylings of large language models like ChatGPT. Scheirer investigates the origins of Internet fakes, from early hoaxes that traversed the globe via Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), USENET, and a new messaging technology called email, to today's hyperrealistic, AI-generated Deepfakes. An expert in machine learning and recognition, Scheirer breaks down the technical advances that made new developments in digital deception possible, and shares behind-the-screens details of early Internet-era pranks that have become touchstones of hacker lore. His story introduces us to the visionaries and mischief-makers who first deployed digital fakery and continue to influence how digital manipulation works--and doesn't--today: computer hackers, digital artists, media forensics specialists, and AI researchers. Ultimately, Scheirer argues that problems associated with fake content are not intrinsic properties of the content itself, but rather, stem from human behavior, demonstrating our capacity for both creativity and destruction"--
Subjects: Internet; Disinformation; Online manipulation; Deception;
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The super berries scam / by Deen, Natasha,author.(CARDINAL)622927; Epelbaum, Mariano,1975-illustrator.(CARDINAL)357020;
Troubled that the berries an internet site promised would make her grow quickly do not work, Dalia investigates the matter and decides to make an online video to expose the scam and educate her fellow students about internet misinformation.Ages 8-12.Grades 4-6.
Subjects: Online manipulation; Internet literacy; Internet research; Podcasts; Internet literacy; Internet research; Podcasts; Swindlers and swindling;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mr. Whisper : a thriller / by Mayne, Andrew,1973-author.(CARDINAL)407794;
"Investigator Sloan McPherson finds a frightened vagrant suffering from amnesia living in a Florida swamp--then learns he disappeared from Oregon when he was a teenager. To find out how he ended up three thousand miles from home thirty years later, Sloan enlists the help of two brilliant colleagues. FBI agent Jessica Blackwood and scientist Theo Cray have already made an alarming connection. A female classmate of the Everglades drifter disappeared at the same time, and their high school journals reveal ties to an enigmatic figure they both called Mr. Whisper. Under his influence they did as they were told. The case is also attracting the attention of corporate security expert Brad Trasker, whose trail is leading to the dark heart of a master manipulator. Jessica, Theo, Sloan, and Brad must now bring their unique skills to the table to take down a diabolical adversary. Unless Mr. Whisper's decades-long control of the vulnerable is too powerful and far-reaching to stop." --
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Policewomen; Missing persons; Online manipulation; Manipulative behavior; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 5
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Misbelief [sound recording] what makes rational people believe irrational things / by Ariely, Dan,author.(CARDINAL)354827; Jones, Simon,1950-narrator.(CARDINAL)327077;
Read by Simon Jones.Utilizing the latest research, social scientist Dan Ariely reveals the key elements--emotional, cognitive, personality, and social--that drive people down the funnel of false information and mistrust, showing how under the right circumstances, anyone can become a misbeliever.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Belief and doubt; Belief and doubt; Disinformation.; Misinformation.; Online manipulation.; PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Behaviorism.; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Conspiracy Theories.;
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Somebody told me... : one man's unexpected journey down the rabbit hole of lies, trolls, and conspiracies / by Wallace, Dannyauthor.(CARDINAL)421715;
"Bestselling author Danny Wallace (Yes Man and Join Me) takes on the modern epidemic of lies, conspiracy theories, and disinformation to find out if truth has a chance in the fight. Have your loved ones been pulled into the rabbit hole of online conspiracies? Are they spouting strange theories about secret cabals or admiring authoritarian leaders? How did we become so vulnerable to false beliefs? Wallace's eye-opening investigation explores the ripple effects of misinformation-meeting families torn apart, journalists on the frontlines, reformed conspiracy believers, influencers cashing in on fear, and the faceless trolls spreading lies. He reveals how disinformation not only devastates lives but divides communities and reshapes nations. False narratives seize our imaginations, leaving us feeling both powerless and oddly energized. With trademark wit and keen insight, Wallace delivers a timely, thought-provoking exploration that will make you question everything you think you know about truth in the digital age. "-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Fake news.; Misinformation.; Conspiracy theories.; Conspiracy theories; Truthfulness and falsehood.; Online manipulation.; Internet; Swindlers and swindling.; Disinformation.; Mass media;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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