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Books About Disinformation & Propaganda

Image: from Robinson Meyer’s The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News.

A.J. Bauer & Anthony Nadler: News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures.

David Beaver & Jason Stanley: The Politics of Language.

Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, & Hal Roberts: Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics.

Jeffrey M. Berry & Sarah Sobieraj: The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility.

Emerson T. Brooking & P. W. Singer: LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media.

Joseph N. Cappella & Kathleen Hall Jamieson: Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment.

Richard L. Hasen: Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy.

Nicole Hemmer: Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics.

Philip N. Howard: Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives.

Nina Jankowicz: How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict.

Sam Lebovic: Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America.

Thomas Milan Konda: Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America.

Daniel J. Levitin: Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era.

Andrew Marantz: Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation.

Michael P. Lynch: The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data.

Anna Merlan: Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.

Ryan M. Milner & Whitney Phillips:

Russell Muirhead & Nancy L. Rosenblum: A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy.

Anne Nelson: Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right.

Kathryn S. Olmsted: Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11.

Cailin O’Connor & James Owen Weatherall:The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread.

Joseph M. Parent & Joseph Uscinski: American Conspiracy Theories.

Reece Peck: Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class.

Whitney Phillips:This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture.

Victor Pickard: Democracy without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.

Peter Pomerantsev:

Thomas Rid: Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare.

Brian Rosenwald: Talk Radio’s America: How an Industry Took Over a Political Party That Took Over the United States.

David E. Sanger: The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age.

Bruce J. Schulman & Julian E. Zelizer: Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America.

Jason Stanley:

Brian Stelter: Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.

Richard Stengel: Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It.

Margaret Sullivan: Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy.

Joseph Uscinski:

Clint Watts: Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News.

Samuel Woolley: The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth.

Christopher Wylie: Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America.

Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.

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