Abstract
Fake News in Digital Cultures by Rob Cover, Ashleigh Haw, and Jay Daniel (2022), promises “a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication.” Studying the digital world from a cultural perspective, the authors propose looking at fake news as a normal byproduct of ‘postmodern’ culture, using Raymond Williams’ (1977) cultural terminology as the basis of their framework. In order to present their argument, and in a lead up to what the authors hint at throughout the book as a possible novel solution for addressing the threat of fake news, they devote several chapters to dissecting the issues and definitions of important concepts surrounding the topic. This is followed by a number of chapters on how news gets manipulated, the role of deep fakes and conspiracy theories, how the manipulation of information has become part and parcel of interactivity, and how new technologies have normalized this occurrence.
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