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1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations |
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Summary |
Slingshotting through conspiracy theories, internet and popular culture, and perplexing psychological phenomena, this compendium illuminates deliriously diverse subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Auto-Tune, Chilean Sea Bass, Claques, Clickbait, Cognitive Dissonance, Cryptids, Dark Matter, False Flag Operations, Gaslighting, Gerrymandering, Kayfabe, Laugh Tracks, Milli Vanilli, Phantom Time Hypothesis, Photoshopping, Potemkin Villages, Rachel Dolezal, Strategery, Truthiness, and the Uncanny Valley. Encyclopedic in scope, but with an incisive voice tuned to these bedeviling times, this is the modern reference book to engage a world rife with artifice and deception. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Common fallacies.
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Common fallacies. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Petrantoni, Lorenzo, 1970- illustrator.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Sorgatz, Rex. Encyclopedia of Misinformation : A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, Skullduggery, Frauds, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Hoaxes, Flimflam, Pranks, Hornswoggle, Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery. Cork : Abrams, ©2018 9781419729119 |
ISBN |
9781683352341 (electronic book) |
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1683352343 (electronic book) |
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9781419729119 |
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141972911X |
Standard No. |
9781419729119 |
Music No. |
MWT12079021 |
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