This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments.

1. Introduction: Toward Understanding Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments; 2. What is Knowledge Resistance?; 3. From Low-choice to High-choice Media Environments: Implications for Knowledge Resistance; 4. Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News: Understanding the Supply Side; 5. Selective Exposure and Attention to Attitude-consistent and Attitude-discrepant Information: Reviewing the Evidence; 6. Relevance-Based Knowledge Resistance in Public Conversations; 7. Responsiveness to Evidence: A Political Cognition Approach; 8. Reports of the Death of Expertise May Be Exaggerated: Limits on Knowledge Resistance in Health and Medicine; 9. Is Resistance Futile? Citizen Knowledge, Motivated Reasoning, and Fact-Checking; 10. Uninformed or Misinformed? A Review of the Conceptual-Operational gap Between (Lack of) Knowledge and (Mis)perceptions; 11. Striving for Certainty: Epistemic Motivations and (Un)biased Cognition; 12. Political Polarization Over Factual Beliefs; 13. The Democratic Gold-Standard of Fact-Based Issue Ambivalence; 14. Overcoming Knowledge Resistance: A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies