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Virtual Unreality: The New Era of Digital Deception

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Availability:In StockContributor:Charles SeifePublish date:2015-08-04Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143127673ISBN-10:143127675UPC:9780143127673Book Category:ComputersBook Subcategory:Social Aspects, Internet, Interactive & MultimediaSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCH11HABXW
The author of Zero and Proofiness explains how to tell truth from fantasy in the digital world, and why it matters

Today, the Internet allows us to spread information faster and to more people than ever before--never mind whether it's true or not. In Virtual Unreality, mathematician, science reporter, and journalist watchdog Charles Seife takes us deep into the information jungle and cuts a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the Internet enables. Providing a much-needed toolkit to help separate fact from fiction, Seife, with his trademark wit and skepticism, addresses the problems that face us every time we turn on our computers and Google our most recent medical symptoms, read a politician's tweet, fact-check something on Wikipedia, or start an online relationship. Let the clicker beware.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143127673ISBN-10:143127675UPC:9780143127673Book Category:ComputersBook Subcategory:Social Aspects, Internet, Interactive & MultimediaSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCH11HABXW
Charles Seife is the author of five previous books, including Proofiness and Zero, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for first nonfiction and was a New York Times notable book. He has written for a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, Wired, New Scientist, Science, Scientific American, and The Economist. He is a professor of journalism at New York University and lives in New York City.


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