Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media

A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms

“…The existing research on false information governance comprises four categories: (1) disinformation and misinformation definitions (Bennett & Livingston, 2021), characteristics (Fallis, 2015, pp. 401–426), classifications (O'Shaughnessy, 2020) and sources (Glenski et al, 2020); (2) the effective intervention in false information (Ding et al, 2021; Funke & Flamini, 2020; Xu & Fu, 2020); (3) measures to detect false information (S. Li et al, 2020; Vo & Lee, 2019) and news literacy (Buckingham, 2019; Tully et al, 2020); and (4) evaluations of the effectiveness of the intervention measures (Culloty & Suiter, 2021; Torabi & Taboada, 2019). Nevertheless, there is a lack of comparative research on the false information governance models of different countries.…”

Media coverage of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Kenya and Tanzania: Content analysis of newspaper articles in East Africa

“…The metamorphosis of the COVID-19 pandemic is a site of contestation of meanings, an experience riddled with conspiracy theories, resulting in the coining of the term "infodemic" by the World Health Organisation, WHO, to describe the situation and the danger it poses to communicating accurate health information. In its simplest understanding, infodemic represents an overabundance of misleading information with the consequence of confusing and harming people who encounter it (Culloty & Suiter, 2021;Wright, 2021).…”

Sociālo zinātņu fakultāte. Sekcija “Dezinformācijas un sazvērestību radītie riski demokrātijai: Latvijas pieredzes pārlūkošana”. Kopsavilkumi

“…Recent advances in digital media have created new and serious challenges against liberal democracy. Challenges that include the spread of disinformation, a declining trust of journalism and the media, increasing manipulation of decision-making processes as well as an increasing toxicity of the internet (Culloty, Suiter 2021). Disinformation and conspiracies endanger human health, security, welfare, and the existence of a knowledge-based society.…”

“…Plašs literatūras klāsts veltīts arī šo fenomenu uzplaukumiem noteiktu vēstures norišu laikā un to vēlākās interpretācijās, piemēram, nacistu antisemītiskajai politikai un holokaustam, Džona Kenedija (John Kennedy) slepkavībai, 2001. gada 11. septembra uzbrukumam ASV (piemēram, Ezergailis 2005;Fay 2019). Nesenais digitālo mediju uzplaukums un dezinformācijas izplatība radījusi nopietnus izaicinājumus liberālajai demokrātijai, tostarp uzticības kritumu žurnālistikai un mediju institūcijām, manipulācijas lēmumpieņemšanas procesos, toksiskuma pieaugumu tiešsaistes komunikācijā (Culloty, Suiter 2021). Dezinformācija un sazvērestības ne tikai apdraud cilvēku veselību, drošību un labklājību, zināšanās balstītas sabiedrības esamības normatīvus, bet arī ir labvēlīgas populisma un radikālu ideoloģiju uzplaukumam.…”