The encyclopedia of misinformation : a compendium of imitations, spoofs, delusions, simulations, counterfeits, impostors, illusions, confabulations, skullduggery, frauds, pseudoscience, propaganda, hoaxes, flimflam, pranks, hornswoggle, conspiracies & miscellaneous fakery /
Slingshotting through conspiracy theories, internet and popular culture, and perplexing psychological phenomena, this compendium illuminates deliriously diverse subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Auto-Tune, Chilean Sea Bass, Claques, Clickbait, Cognitive Dissonance, Cryptids, Dark Matter, False Flag...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Abrams,
2018.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781683352341 1683352343 9781419729119 141972911X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 3D Printing
- 13th Floor, The
- 555-2368
- Aether
- Agnotology
- Alien Space Bats
- Alt-History
- Alternative Facts
- Anti-Vaxxers
- Apocrypha
- Archies, The
- Area 51
- Astroturfing
- Auto-Tune
- Autobiography of Howard Hughes
- Automated Dialogue Replacement
- Backfire Effect
- Backmasking
- Backwards R
- Bananadine
- Barnum Effect
- Barron, John
- Beanie Baby Bubble
- Behold a Pale Horse
- Bellman's Fallacy
- Berenstain Bears Conspiracy
- Big Lie, The
- Birthers
- Black Propaganda
- Blair, Jayson
- The Blair Witch Project
- Bogus Pipeline
- Bonsai Kitten
- Botox
- Brain in a Vat
- Buggs, The
- Bullshit
- Canary Trap
- Canned Heat
- Cannibal Holocaust
- Capgras Delusion
- Cardiff Giant
- Catfish
- Celebrity Sex Tapes
- Chewbacca Defense
- Chilean Sea Bass
- Chinese Art Reproduction
- Chinese Whispers
- Church of SubGenius
- Clapter
- Claque
- Clickbait
- Clifton, Tony
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Cold Fusion
- Coleman, Allegra
- Concern Trolling
- Confidence Game
- Confirmation Bias
- Cosplay
- Cotard Delusion
- Crisis Actors
- Cryptids
- Cunningham's Law
- Cyborg
- Dark Energy
- Dark Side of the Rainbow
- Deep State
- Defictionalized Products
- Doe, John
- Dolezal, Rachel
- Dolly
- Donkey Punch
- Doublethink
- Dream Argument
- Dress, The
- Eliza Effect
- Esperanto
- Esquivalience
- Exploding Pop Rocks
- F for Fake
- Factoid
- Fake Shemp
- False Flag Operation
- Fanfic
- Filter Bubble
- Finstagram
- Fiverr
- Flat Earth Theory
- Foreign Branding
- Fountain
- Fourth Wall, The
- Frankenfood
- Fregoli Delusion
- FUD
- Gaslighting
- Genovese, Kitty
- Gerrymandering
- Glass, Stephen
- Gospel of Jesus's Wife
- Greebles
- Grunge Speak
- Histories
- Hitler Diaries
- Homer
- Honeypot.
- Honeytrap
- Houdini, Harry
- Human Cloning
- Humbuggery
- Hypnosis
- Idaho
- If I Did It
- Illegal Prime Number
- Impostor Syndrome
- Infinite Monkey Theorem
- Internet Research Agency
- Internet Troll
- Jabberwocky
- Jenkem
- Joseph McCarthy's List
- Karaoke
- Kayfabe
- Kettle Logic
- Knockoff Handbags
- Kuleshov Effect
- Larp
- Laugh Track
- LeRoy, JT
- Lie-to-Children
- Long, Huey
- Lorem Ipsum
- Manchurian Candidate
- Mandela Effect
- Manning, David
- March of Time, The
- Masked Marauders, The
- Mechanical Turk
- Meme Magic
- Mere-Exposure Effect
- Method, The
- Miku, Hatsune
- Milli Vanilli
- Million Little Pieces, A
- Mimicry
- Mockbuster
- Modest Proposal, A
- Moirologist
- Mondegreen
- Money
- Moon Landing Hoax
- Munchausen Syndrome
- Nacirema
- Naked Came the Stranger
- Newspeak
- Noble Lie
- Noddy
- Nonce Word
- Not Even Wrong
- Null Island
- Omnipotence Paradox
- One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge
- Operation Mindfuck
- Order of the Occullt Hand
- Orgasms
- Overton Window
- Pareidolia
- Pascal's Wager
- Passing
- Paul is Dead
- Phantom Limbs
- Phantom Time Hypothess
- Phantom Vibration Syndrome
- Philosopher's Stone
- Photoshopping
- Placebo Effect
- Plandid
- Plastic Surgery
- Plato's Cave
- Polygraph
- Ponzi Scheme
- Pope Joan
- Pornography
- Potemkin Village
- Prester John
- Product Displacement
- Product Placement
- Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
- Pseudo-Event
- Push Poll
- Quid Pro Quo Gossip
- Radar Chaff
- Rape on Campus, A
- Rashomon Effect
- Rathergate
- Ray's Pizza
- RealDoll
- Realist, The
- Reality-Based Community
- Red Murcury
- Red Pill, The
- Reichstag Fire
- Report from Iron Mountain, The
- Retconning
- Robinson Crusoe
- Rockefeller, Clark
- Rorshach Test
- Rosenhan Experiment
- Ruiz, Rosie.
- Rumsfeld Matrix, The
- Sampuru
- Santa Claus
- Schrödinger's Cat
- Sexual Conversion Therapy
- Ship of Theseus
- Shroud of Turing
- Simulism
- Slashfic
- Sleepify
- Slenderman
- Smarks
- Smithee, Alan
- Snipe Hunt
- Snopes
- Sock Puppet
- Sodium Pentothal
- Sokal Hoax
- Sophists
- Steganography
- Strategery
- Streisand Effect
- Subliminal Advertising
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Swiftboating
- Synthetic Diamonds
- Tamagotchi Effect
- Tate, Nat
- Temp Music
- Teoing
- Tofurkey
- Tommy Westphall Universe
- Toyetic
- Trap Streets
- Treachery of Images, The
- Tribute Bands
- Trojan Horse
- Trompe L'oeil
- Truman Syndrome
- Truth Claim
- Truthiness
- Tulipomania
- Tupac Hologram
- Turing Test
- Turtles All the Way Down
- Twerking Fail
- Umwelt
- Uncanny Valley
- Unreliable Narrator
- Utopia
- Van Doren, Charles
- Van Meegeren, Han
- Viral Marketing
- Virtue Signaling
- Voight-Kampff Machine
- Vomitoriums
- War of the Worlds, The
- Warhol, Andy
- Washington Generals
- Whataboutism
- Whorfianism
- Wiping
- Woozle Effect
- 'Work of Fiction' Disclaimer
- X.A.I.
- Xenu
- Yellow Journalism
- Zardulu
- Zeno's Paradox
- Afterword
- Inspirations
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page.