Virtual Unreality

By Charles Seife

Subjects: Internet, Prevention, Internet fraud, COMPUTERS / Internet / General, Internet, safety measures, Electronic information resource literacy, Safety measures, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General, Internet literacy, Evaluation, Computer network resources, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Computers, social aspects

Description: Seife takes "us deep into the Internet information jungle and [cuts] a path through the trickery, fakery, and cyber skullduggery that the online world enables. Taking on everything from breaking news coverage and online dating to program trading and that eccentric and unreliable source that is Wikipedia, Seife arms his readers with actual tools--or weapons--for discerning truth from fiction online"--