{"product_id":"you-are-here-isbn-9780262539913","title":"You Are Here","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.INTRODUCTION: MAPPING   NETWORK POLLUTION 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 THE DEVIL’S IN THE DEEP FRAMES 17\u003cbr\u003e 2 THE ROOT OF ALL MEMES 49\u003cbr\u003e 3 TILLING BIGOTED LANDS, SOWING BIGOTED SEEDS 81\u003cbr\u003e 4 THE GATHERING STORM 115\u003cbr\u003e 5 CULTIVATING ECOLOGICAL LITERACY 149\u003cbr\u003e 6 CHOOSE YOUR OWN ETHICS ADVENTURE 181\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 203\u003cbr\u003e Notes 205\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 237\u003cbr\u003e Index 259“\u003ci\u003eYou Are Here... \u003c\/i\u003eis an invaluable guide to our problems around news, truth and fact.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e— New Scientist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Our country is under attack by our foreign adversaries and their domestic partners, and we need to better understand what’s going on. \u003cu\u003eYou Are Here\u003c\/u\u003e helps us do that and helps us understand how we can all stand together and fight back.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCraig Newmark, founder of craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003eWhitney Phillips and Ryan Milner have a knack for taking a topic you think you understand and then rearranging your entire worldview, leaving you gobsmacked and wanting more. This mind-bending book connects the past to the present and the digital to the environmental to reveal the roots of today’s disinformation panic.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003edanah boyd, author of \u003ci\u003eIt's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This excellent book gives us timely and much-needed guidance for thinking about the overall information ecology that we are immersed in—including pathways to a better future.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJessica Beyer, University of Washington; author of \u003ci\u003eExpect Us: Online Communities and Political Mobilization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302662197477,"sku":"NP9780262539913","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539913.jpg?v=1767744719","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/you-are-here-isbn-9780262539913","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}