These works expand on some of the key ideas discussed throughout this year's Community Summit event and are available for borrowing in the SFU Library collection.
Post-truth
Come to terms with the new realities posed by the"post-truth era" in which emotional appeals outweigh factual statements.
- Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture / Dana L. Cloud
- Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic / David Frum
- The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump / Michiko Kakutani
- Post-Truth / Lee C. McIntyre
- America’s Post-Truth Phenomenon: When Feelings and Opinions Trump Facts and Evidence / C.G. Prado, C. G., ed.
Fake news
Better understand the effects of the rise in intentionally misleading news stories that find wide audiences via social media.
- Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies: How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age / Donald Barclay
- How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Thinking through Difficult Times / Ilan Zvi Baron
- Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics / Yochai Benkler
- Fake News: Falsehood, Fabrication and Fantasy in Journalism / Brian McNair
- American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News / James O’Keefe
Politics
Re-evaluate the essential role of truth and fact-checking in the political sphere.
- The Politics of Misinformation / Murray J. Edelman.
- Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism / Lucas Graves
- 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity / Charles Lewis
- Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times / Robert Waterman McChesney
- Does Truth Matter?: Democracy and Public Space / Ronald Tinnevelt and Raf Geenens, eds.
Technology and social media
Evaluate the role of technology and social media platforms as key agents in the increasing proliferation of widespread misinformation.
- Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era / Matt Carlson
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy / Cathy O’Neil
- The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information / Frank Pasquale
- Overload: Finding the Truth in Today’s Deluge of News / Bob Schieffer
- Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy / Siva Vaidhyanathan
- Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media / Samuel C. Woolley and Philip N. Howard
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get inside Our Heads / Tim Wu
Scientific misinformation
Learn about the ongoing threat to scientific knowledge posed by widespread misinformation about topics ranging from vaccinations to climate change.
- Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science / David Ball et al.
- A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age / Daniel J. Levitin
- Don’t Even Think about It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change / George Marshall
- Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand / Haydn Washington
Classic works
Discover the philosophical theories and historical trends that add valuable context to current debates involving the role of truth and information in politics and society.
- The Origins of Totalitarianism / Hannah Arendt
- On Truth / Simon Blackburn
- Nineteen Eighty-Four / George Orwell
- The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information / Jean-François Revel
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century / Timothy Snyder
Canada
Learn more about challenges and threats to information access in a Canadian context, with titles discussing political propaganda, media censorship, and governmental control over online communication.
- Propaganda and Persuasion: The Cold War and the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society / Jennifer Anderson
- The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two / Mark Bourrie
- Democracy under Threat: Risks and Solutions in the Era of Disinformation and Data Monopoly : Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics / Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics
- A Propaganda System: How the Canada’s Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War and Exploitation / Yves Engler
- Interpreting Censorship in Canada / Hutchinson, Allan C., Klaus Petersen, and Canadian Electronic Library
