Overcoming Information Chaos: A Guide to Cultivating Peaceful Communities in a Digital Age, by Danielle Reiff (editor) (Upriver Press, 2025, $29.95, 440pp)
She wanted to write a book and the topic finally came to her after COVID. The next step was to find experts to write a chapter each and she did. Some were PhDs and some were librarians. Others were other things. All are good writers, perhaps because they write a lot in their areas of expertise.
I wish book covers were attributed like magazine covers are - along with an explanation. This cover with red circuits (?) on one side and blue-green circuits on the other side are perfect for this reviewer who may be wrong (me).
One particularly fascinating chapter explained the history of the election process and the differences among states. Not really how to get elected but the procedures how the states differ in their boards of election and what the various jobs are in the voting process.
I have very little to say about the writing styles - I saw nothing I didn't like except possibly to make the text more exciting.
Information disorder and the media are the main topics covered - they appear as sections under which the chapters fall. Misinformation, disinformation, disorder, election integrity, media literacy - all are covered in detail by experts.
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