Virtual unreality

just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true?

248 pages

English language

Published July 19, 2014 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-670-02608-1
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OCLC Number:
871534390

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5 stars (1 review)

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"--

2 editions

Subjects

  • Safety measures
  • Electronic information resource literacy
  • Internet literacy
  • Internet fraud
  • Internet
  • Computer network resources
  • Evaluation
  • Prevention