Authenticity: Understanding Misinformation Through the Study of Heritage Tourism - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

William Aspray is Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute, a research center for the study of Computing, Information, and Culture at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA. He is author or editor of more than 25 books on the history of computing, mathematics, and information.

James W. Cortada is a Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in modern history and spent nearly 4 decades working at IBM in various sales, managerial, and research positions. His most recent books include Building Blocks of Society: History, Information Ecosystems, and Infrastructures (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), with William Aspray, Authenticity: Understanding Misinformation Through the Study of Heritage Tourism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research. Governments, and Businesses (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), and Today's Facts: Understanding the Current Evolution of Information (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025).