The (Dis)information Age—The Persistence of Ignorance

This scholarly work on the social ramifications of the digital age examines the effects of increased access to information and communications on the real distribution of truth and factually accurate information. Addressing the possibility that the tools of information freedom may in some ways contribute to the destructions of truthful dialog, the material covers topics such as media and ignorance, disinformation and propaganda in video games, business and advertising misinformation, information age journalism and ignorance, and social media and disinformation. Mohammed is a professor of communications at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Shaheed Nick Mohammed, Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State Altoona, earned his doctorate from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. He is the author of Communication and the Globalization of Culture: Beyond Tradition and Borders (2011).