Unisciti a noi in un viaggio nel mondo dei libri!
Aggiungi questo libro allo scaffale
Grey
Scrivi un nuovo commento Default profile 50px
Grey
Iscriviti per leggere l'intero libro o leggi le prime pagine gratuitamente!
All characters reduced
Internet Hoaxes - cover

Internet Hoaxes

Michael Johnson

Traduttore A AI

Casa editrice: Publifye

  • 0
  • 1
  • 0

Sinossi

Internet Hoaxes examines how fake news and online misinformation spread rapidly in the digital age, exploring the technology and psychology behind these deceptive practices. The book highlights how social media algorithms can amplify falsehoods and how echo chambers reinforce existing beliefs, making people more susceptible to online scams. By understanding how hoaxes exploit vulnerabilities, readers can develop critical thinking skills and media literacy to combat online deception.

 
The book begins by defining internet hoaxes and tracing their evolution from traditional media to the digital realm. It then analyzes the psychology behind why people believe hoaxes, exploring cognitive biases like confirmation bias. Finally, Internet Hoaxes presents real-world case studies of viral misinformation, including its impact on elections and financial markets, demonstrating the tangible consequences of these online deceptions.

 
Through a holistic approach, the book combines technical analysis with psychological insights and real-world examples, offering a comprehensive understanding of internet hoaxes. Drawing on academic research, fact-checking reports, and social media analysis, the book empowers readers to navigate the digital landscape more discerningly. This fact-based analysis helps readers understand the anatomy of online deception and its impact on current events.
Disponibile da: 29/03/2025.
Lunghezza di stampa: 77 pagine.

Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

  • Riders of a Certain Age - Your Guide for Loving Horses Mid-Life and Beyond - cover

    Riders of a Certain Age - Your...

    Fran Severn

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    The fastest growing segment of the horse world is women mid-life and beyond. This thorough but light-hearted guide welcomes you to the equine life. Whether a newcomer to the world of hay and hoofs more someone who’s been in the saddle since childhood, you’ll find information about every aspect of the horse world. Riders of a Certain Age is full of wisdom and sound advice for people coming into horses as adults. It encourages us to keep riding forward at a point in life when others might expect us to whoa. From leasing to leakage, money to manure, this engagingly candid, comprehensive resource is an owner’s manual for reclaiming the right to indulge your horse-loving inner child. With carefully curated guidance collected over years of horsing around, Fran Severn presents you with tips, lessons, and advice as you begin enjoying a life with horses in it. 
    You’ll find information about: 
    -Getting into the saddle (or not, but still enjoying horses) 
    -Finding an instructor and being a good student 
    -Understanding and overcoming fear 
    -Riding with ‘replacement parts’ 
    -Dealing with the physical changes and challenges of our older bodies 
    -Learning the world of buying, leasing, and boarding horses 
    -Managing your ‘stable finances’ to pay for it all and still stay solvent
    Mostra libro
  • Modern Web Applications with NextJS - Learn Advanced Techniques to Build and Deploy Modern Scalable and Production Ready React Applications with NextJS - cover

    Modern Web Applications with...

    Shubham Jain

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    "Elevate Your Web Development with Next.js Mastery!"
    
    Book Description
    This practical handbook takes you on a journey from foundational principles to advanced techniques, offering a complete exploration of Next.js, the cutting-edge framework for building performant and dynamic web applications.
    Beginning with an introductory overview of web applications utilizing Next.js and JavaScript, the book reintroduces React to ensure a strong footing in the core concepts. It then delves into the fundamentals of Next.js, providing insights into the latest version's core advancements and optimizations.
    It will help you explore the intricacies of Next.js applications, including an in-depth look at optimizing performance. It will then move on to demystify routing in Next.js, mastering state management, and implementing RESTful and GraphQL APIs. By the end of it, you will understand the usage of diverse databases and discover the significance of client-side and server-side rendering in Next.js applications.
    This book also covers crucial aspects of securing applications using NextAuth. It will help you learn to develop a complete CRUD application, gaining hands-on experience and insight into deployment architectures that can turn your projects into scalable and production-ready applications.
    
    Table of Contents
    1. Introduction to Web Applications with Next.js and JavaScript
    2. Recall React
    3. Next.js Fundamentals
    4. Next.js 13
    5. Optimizing Next.js Applications
    6. Understanding Routing in Next.js
    7. State Management in Next.js
    8. Restful and GraphQL API Implementation
    9. Using Different Types of Databases
    10. Understanding Rendering in Next.js Applications
    11. Securing App with Next Auth
    12. Developing a CRUD Application with Next.js
    13. Exploring Deployment Architecture in Next.js Applications   
    Index
    Mostra libro
  • Windswept: Life Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands - cover

    Windswept: Life Nature and Deep...

    Annie Worsley

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    ‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE 
    ‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 
    A few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces – light, wind and water – that hold sway over how land forms, where the sea sits and what grows. Windswept explores what it means to live in this rugged, awe-inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild weather. 
    Walk with Annie as she lays quartz stones in the river to reflect the moonlight and attract salmon, as she watches otters play tag across the beach, as she is awoken by the feral bellowing of stags. Travel back in time to the epic story of how Scotland’s valleys were carved by glaciers, rivers scythed paths through mountains, how the earliest people found a way of life in the Highlands – and how she then found a home there millennia later. 
    With stunning imagery and lyrical prose, Windswept evokes a place where nature reigns supreme and humans must learn to adapt. It is her paean to a beloved place, one richer with colour, sound and life than perhaps anywhere else in the UK. 
    Annie Worsley's Windswept is a top-tier memoir that intertwines personal narratives with the history of Britain's ecosystems. Her commitment to environmental conservation and habitat protection is evident throughout, making this autobiography a must-read for those interested in European non-fiction. 
    For fans of Robert Macfarlane (Is a River Alive?), Raynor Winn (Landlines), Sharon Blackie (The Enchanted Life), Chloe Dalton (Raising Hare), and Suleika Jaouad (Between Two Kingdoms). 
    HarperCollins 2023
    Mostra libro
  • The Substrate Theory of Everything - How One Field Solves All Of Physics - cover

    The Substrate Theory of...

    Justin Reed

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Substrate Theory of Everything: One field. One picture. All of physics. 
     
    For a hundred years, physics has been a tale of two views that refuse to speak to each other. Quantum mechanics describes the small — atoms, particles, the strange world of probability and superposition. General relativity describes the large — planets, stars, galaxies, the smooth curved geometry of spacetime itself. Each is one of the greatest intellectual achievements in human history. Each has been tested to extraordinary precision. And yet, these two views don't get along. 
     
    Their disagreement has haunted physicists for generations. Why does matter have mass? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is dark matter? What is dark energy? Why is the energy of empty space 122 orders of magnitude smaller than physics says it should be — the largest disagreement between theory and observation in the history of science? Why does quantum mechanics give us probabilities? Why three generations of particles, with masses that span thirteen orders of magnitude in a pattern no one has explained? Why is gravity weaker than electromagnetism by a factor of ten-to-the-forty? What came before the Big Bang? What will come at the end of time? 
     
    This book proposes a single answer to all of these questions. Beneath the world we see — beneath the particles, beneath the forces, beneath spacetime itself — there is one underlying field. One thing. The substrate. Everything else is a pattern in it. Mass is a localized knot in the substrate. Charge is a twist in its phase. Gravity is its response to being deformed by mass. Forces are the patterns of how the substrate interacts with itself. Even time is not what we think it is: time is not a smooth continuous flow but a discrete pulse of the substrate, ticking ten-to-the-forty-four times every second, the steady heartbeat of reality itself. From this one idea, with eight supporting principles, the entire edifice of physics rebuilds itself.
    Mostra libro
  • Ambience - Zen - cover

    Ambience - Zen

    Rasmus Broe

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Find inner peace with meditation music that allows you to reach zen. Singing bowls, soft tones, and relaxed music helps you to unwind completely. Take a deep breath and let go of all tension and stresses. 
    Saga Sounds 
    Research has shown that sounds can have both a relaxing and stimulating effect on the brain. The ambience series from Saga Talks is a series of pleasant, varied soundscapes, which you can listen to when winding down, going to sleep, or focusing on work. A specially designed sound universe creates a calming atmosphere, also known as “ambience”, which you can enter when and where you want. 
    Saga Talks has created a series of different soundscapes and ambient environments in collaboration with sound designer and composer Rasmus Broe (f. 1975).
    Mostra libro
  • Neuroplasticity For Beginners: Conquer Trauma and PTSD Change Bad Habits Eliminate Depression (Discover the Secrets to Rewiring Your Brain for Optimal Performance and Mental Agility) - cover

    Neuroplasticity For Beginners:...

    Elena Russo

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Unlock the Power of Your Brain to Heal, Grow, and Thrive 
    Are you stuck in patterns of anxiety, depression, trauma, or bad habits that seem impossible to break? Neuroplasticity For Beginners is your essential guide to understanding and harnessing the brain’s incredible ability to rewire itself. 
    Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience but written in clear, accessible language, this book shows how you can transform your mind and life—starting today. Whether you’re struggling with PTSD, battling negative thinking, or simply seeking to sharpen your mental performance, you’ll discover practical tools and strategies to:Reprogram limiting beliefs and emotional responsesBreak the cycle of destructive habits and addictionOvercome anxiety, trauma, and depressive thought patternsCultivate resilience, focus, and emotional balanceUnlock your brain’s full potential through mindful rewiring 
    Through step-by-step exercises, real-life examples, and actionable insights, Neuroplasticity For Beginners empowers you to take control of your mental health and shape a brighter, healthier future—no matter your past. 
    It’s never too late to change your brain. It’s never too late to change your life.
    Mostra libro