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New HLRS Book: Trust and Disinformation

Book cover for "Trust and Disinformation"

What exactly is disinformation and how could its negative effects be mitigated? The latest volume in the Science and Art of Simulation series offers helpful perspectives.

The High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) is pleased to announce publication of its latest book, Trust and Disinformation. Containing proceedings of a conference organized by HLRS's program in the Philosophy of Computational Sciences, the volume explores questions about how to define disinformation, how disinformation affects society, and what could be done to combat the spread of disinformation. By bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from the humanities and social sciences, the volume aims to deepen understanding of a problem that continues to have major impacts on society, culture, and politics in the digital age.

The book is now available through Springer Nature Link. Edited by Michael M. Resch, Michael Herrmann, Andreas Kaminski, Maike Stelzer, and Jörn Wiengarn, it is the third volume in the HLRS book series The Science and Art of Simulation.

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Contents

Trust, testimony and technology: What makes it so hard to combat disinformation?
Michael Herrmann, Andreas Kaminski, Jörn Wiengarn

Trust in falsehoods: definitions, sources, challenges
Andrija Šoć

When homeopathy cures cancer: about bullshit, irony and disinformation in the homeopathic discourse
Viet Anh Nguyen Duc, Marcel Erik Lemmer

How to lie without lying: exploring strategies of assertion-denial
Jörn Wiengarn

Politicization, signaling, and the epistemic landscape
Casey Doyle

Fake news and conspiracy narratives in the context of regimes of "posttruth": an analysis from the perspective of nihilism
Oliver Zöllner

Ignorance in social networks: discounting delays and shape matters
Brian Ball, Alexandros Loliousis, Amil Mohanan, Mike Peacey

War against fake news: avoiding Manichaeism
Sacha Ferrari

Targets of countermeasures against disinformation: Individual beliefs and group beliefs
Lei Niu