Titre:
Virtual unreality : just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true?
Auteur:
PUBDATE:
2014
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York, New York : Viking, 2014.
Description matérielle:
vi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780670026081
Résumé:
Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] 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--or weapons--for discerning truth from fiction online"-- Provided by publisher.
Table des matières:
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.
LANGUAGE:
Anglais
