Terror warnings fake news spectacles and scandals in real time - the networked world has
wound itself up into a nervous frenzy where everything has become visible: the banal and the
terrible the uninhibited abuse and the anonymous attack. Translated for the first time into
English Digital Fever analyses the patterns of outrage and agitation that have come to define
social media and the Internet exposing their devastating impact on our notions of truth
debate authority and power. In this endless cycle of outrage Poerksen argues that the
intelligent use of information must become part of the general education provided by schools:
the digital society must be transformed into an editorial one. In order for democracy to
survive we must as a society achieve media maturity. A blazing tour of the contemporary
landscape of fake-news echo chambers disinformation manipulation and the turbulence that
democracy is undergoing this book not only analyses this digital economy of outrage but
serves as a guiding light to overcome it.
