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by Andrew Weiss (Author)
This book examines fake news in the digital information age, as well as its impact on society, especially in education, politics, and public policy.
Author Biography
Andrew Weiss is a digital services librarian at California State University, Northridge, with over fifteen years of experience working in academic libraries. He focuses primarily on scholarly communication issues, especially open access, copyright policy in academia, institutional repositories, and developing better strategies for data curation. He is currently a PhD student with Manchester Metropolitan University in the San Jose State University Gateway program. His current and prior research examines fake news and disinformation; the impact of massive digital libraries such as Google Books, the HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive; the future developments of open access publishing; the impact of 'Big Data;' and, last but not least, information ethics. He lives in Los Angeles with his family.
