Misinformation Finds Them : Hybrid Media and Radicalization in Rural America
In this groundbreaking study, Misinformation Finds Them unearths how the perceived threat of misinformation effects on other people is just as potent –if not more so – than the actual impact that hybrid media systems have on democracy and community in the heartland. Here, it is not that rural Americ...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
2025
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