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Author Seife, Charles author.

Title Virtual unreality : just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true? / Charles Seife.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Viking, 2014.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  025.04 SEIFE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  025.04 SEI c.2  Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  025.04 SEIFE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  025.04 SEI    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  025.04 SEI    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  025.04 S459V    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  025.04 SEI    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  025.04 SE    Check Shelf
Description vi, 248 pages ; 22 cm
Summary 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [231] -239) and index.
Contents Introduction. Virtual unreality -- Catching the stupid bug -- Appeal to authority -- An army of one -- Telling fake people from real -- The loneliness of the interconnected -- Copy, right? -- Scarcity -- All hat, no cattle -- White noise and the Red Queen -- Artificial unintelligence -- Make money fast -- Companies : private, public, and shady -- This is your brain -- Living in the raw.
Subject Computer network resources -- Evaluation.
Internet -- Safety measures.
Internet fraud -- Prevention.
Internet literacy.
Electronic information resource literacy.
COMPUTERS / Internet / General.
COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General.
MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General.
ISBN 9780670026081 (hbk.)
0670026085 (hbk.)
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