You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

This book teaches how to understand and improve a crisis-ridden media environment by adopting an ecological approach. Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner offer strategies for navigating these information flows using ecological metaphors.

Phillips and Milner trace the origins of the poisoned media landscape to the Satanic Panics of the 1980s and 1990s, which exemplified “network climate change.” They also explore the rise of trolling culture and the reactionary far right during and after the 2016 election. They delve into the history of conspiracy theories in the United States, focusing on those concerning the Deep State, and explain why old media literacy solutions fail to address new ones. Finally, they suggest how we can navigate the network crisis thoughtfully, effectively, and ethically by adopting a network ethics.

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