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Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
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An engaging look at how American politics and media reinforce partisan identity and threaten democracy

Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are simply not true―and act based on these misperceptions. In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, expert in media and politics Dannagal Goldthwaite Young offers a comprehensive model that illustrates how political leaders and media organizations capitalize on our social and cultural identities to separate, enrage, and―ultimately―mobilize us.

Through a process of identity distillation encouraged by public officials, journalists, political and social media, Americans' political identities―how we think of ourselves as members of our political team―drive our belief in and demand for misinformation. It turns out that if being wrong allows us to comprehend the world, have control over it, or connect with our community, all in ways that serve our political team, then we don't want to be right.
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Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
3.93/5 (116 ratings)
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An engaging look at how American politics and media reinforce partisan identity and threaten democracy

Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are simply not true―and act based on these misperceptions. In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, expert in media and politics Dannagal Goldthwaite Young offers a comprehensive model that illustrates how political leaders and media organizations capitalize on our social and cultural identities to separate, enrage, and―ultimately―mobilize us.

Through a process of identity distillation encouraged by public officials, journalists, political and social media, Americans' political identities―how we think of ourselves as members of our political team―drive our belief in and demand for misinformation. It turns out that if being wrong allows us to comprehend the world, have control over it, or connect with our community, all in ways that serve our political team, then we don't want to be right.
Format:
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pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
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ISBN10:
1421447754
ISBN13:
9781421447759
kindle Asin:
B0BWSNRCHT

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