{"product_id":"you-are-here-a-field-guide-for-navigating-polarized-speech-conspiracy-theories-and-our-polluted-media-landscape-paperback","title":"You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWhitney Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRyan M. Milner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur media environment is in crisis. Polarization is rampant. Polluted information floods social media. Even our best efforts to help clean up can backfire, sending toxins roaring across the landscape. In \u003ci\u003eYou Are Here\u003c\/i\u003e, Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating increasingly treacherous information flows. Using ecological metaphors, they emphasize how our individual me is entwined within a much larger we, and how everyone fits within an ever-shifting network map. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhillips and Milner describe how our poisoned media landscape came into being, beginning with the Satanic Panics of the 1980s and 1990s--which, they say, exemplify \"network climate change\"--and proceeding through the emergence of trolling culture and the rise of the reactionary far right (as well as its amplification by journalists) during and after the 2016 election. They explore the history of conspiracy theories in the United States, focusing on those concerning the Deep State; explain why old media literacy solutions fail to solve new media literacy problems; and suggest how we can navigate the network crisis more thoughtfully, effectively, and ethically. We need a network ethics that looks beyond the messages and the messengers to investigate toxic information's downstream effects.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhitney Phillips is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press). Ryan M. Milner is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Charleston and author of \u003ci\u003eThe World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47438077952221,"sku":"9780262539913","price":27.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/tBowELrVO9780262539913.webp?v=1781273302","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/you-are-here-a-field-guide-for-navigating-polarized-speech-conspiracy-theories-and-our-polluted-media-landscape-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}