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02321aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 B6BD0B6A9AD211E8AB5A4B6797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180808010347 008 141023t20152014nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0143127675 020 $a 9780143127673 035 $a (OCoLC)893895257 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d GL4 $d OCLCO $d CD5 $d NZAUC $d TEF $d OCLCO $e rda $d LPU $d LVY $d SILO 050 4 $a ZA4201 $b .S44 2014 082 04 $a 025.04 $2 23 100 1 $a Seife, Charles. 245 10 $a Virtual unreality : $b the new era of digital deception / $c Charles Seife. 246 12 $a Virtual unreality : $b just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true? 246 30 $a New era of digital deception 264 1 $a New York : $b Penguin Books, $c 2015. 300 $a vi, 248 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a First published in hardcover by Viking Penguin, 2014, with the title: Virtual unreality : just because the Internet told you, how do you know it's true? --verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Catching the stupid bug -- Appeal to authority -- An army of one -- Telling fake people from real -- The loneliness of the interconnected -- Copy, right? -- Scarcity -- All hat, no cattle -- White noise and the red queen -- Artificial unintelligence -- Make money fast -- Companies: private, public, and shady -- This is your brain... -- Living in the raw. 520 $a "In Virtual Unreality, mathematician, science reporter, and journalist watchdog Charles Seife takes us deep into the information jungle and cuts a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the Internet enables. Providing a much-needed toolkit to help separate fact from fiction, Seife addresses the problems that face us every time we turn on our computers and Google our most recent medical symptoms, read a politician's tweet, fact-check something on Wikipedia, or start an online relationship" -- $c provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Computer network resources $x Evaluation. 650 0 $a Internet $x Safety measures. 650 0 $a Internet fraud $x Prevention. 650 0 $a Internet literacy. 941 $a 1 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025010458.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B6BD0B6A9AD211E8AB5A4B6797128E48 994 $a C0 $b LVYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search