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Title Rumor and communication in Asia in the Internet age [electronic resource] / edited by Greg Dalziel.

Imprint London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 207 p. : ill.
Series Media, culture and social change in Asia ; 32
Media, culture, and social change in Asia series ; 32.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Rumor, gossip, and conspiracy theories : pathologies of testimony and the principal of publicity / Axel Gelfert -- Have you heard? : the rumor as reliable / Matthew Dentith -- Triangle of death : strategic communication, counterinsurgency, and the rumor mill / Daniel Bernardi and Scott Ruston -- The politics of informal communication : conspiracy theories and rumors in the 2009 (post-) electoral Iranian public sphere / Babak Rahimi -- Rumors, religion, and political mobilization : Indonesian cases, 1965-1998 / Mark Woodward -- Rumors of terrorism : social cognitive structures, collective sensemaking, and the emergence of rumor / Greg Dalziel -- Rumor, culture, and strategic communication across old and new media in Southeast Asia : the case of terrorist Noordin Top / Chris Lundry and Pauline Hope Cheong -- Anxiety and rumor : exploratory analysis of Twitter posts during the Mumbai terrorist attack / Onook Oh, Manish Agrawal and H. Raghav Rao -- Rumor, the evil twin of strategic communication : what "white" propaganda can learn from "grey" / Anthony Olcott.
Summary "Explores how rumours are created, disseminated and absorbed in the age of the internet and mobile communications. It includes a wide range of examples and, besides considering the overall processes involved, engages with scholarly debates in the field of media and communication studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Rumor -- Asia.
Communication -- Social aspects -- Asia.
Internet -- Social aspects -- Asia.
Public opinion -- Asia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dalziel, Greg.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780415641272 (hbk.)
9780203403327 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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