Disruptive Information in Canada

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An impressively comprehensive guide to understanding how disruptive information is deployed in both Canadian news media and online discourse. It's an essential text if one wants to make sense of this often disorienting age of disinformation and misinformation. * Adrian Harewood, Professor of Journalism, Carleton University, Canada * Disruptive Information in Canada is an important book for critical technology scholars, political economists, journalists, and policy makers who want to understand the current state of misinformation, disinformation, and other disruptive information in a Canadian context. The book is thorough, well researched, and provides solid empirical evidence of the complex domestic and geo-political forces influencing the spread of disruptive information. Al-Rawi situates the challenges of disruptive information for Canada, showing that information operations interacts with each person's community, media exposure, and individual psychology to spread information that is detrimental to democratic engagement. A must read for anyone concerned about the health of democratic communication in this country. * Jaigris Hodson, Canada Research Chair in Digital Communication for the Public Interest (Tier 2), Royal Roads University, Canada * Confused, conflicted, feeling tricked? For years, Ahmed Al-Rawi has questioned how Canada's media system works and doesn't. Pulling together his wide-ranging research, his book introduces the novel concept of disruptive media to explore how successful media manipulation today leaves us less informed, as well as how the business of confusion is driving our contemporary media system. * Fenwick McKelvey, Associate Professor, Concordia University, Canada *