Cultivating Ecological Literacy: A Critical Framework for Understanding and Addressing Mis‐ and Disinformation
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DOI: 10.1002/pra2.656
Abstract: This conceptual paper highlights limitations within existing approaches to mis and disinformation and offers a cross disciplinary approach that draws from social shaping of technology and critical informatics to explain and understand these complex informational… read more here.
Keywords: information; mis disinformation; disinformation; cultivating ecological ... See more keywords
Combating disinformation in a social media age
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DOI: 10.1002/widm.1385
Abstract: The creation, dissemination, and consumption of disinformation and fabricated content on social media is a growing concern, especially with the ease of access to such sources, and the lack of awareness of the existence of… read more here.
Keywords: social media; media age; disinformation; combating disinformation ... See more keywords
Negative Downstream Effects of Alarmist Disinformation Discourse: Evidence from the United States
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DOI: 10.1007/s11109-024-09911-3
Abstract: The threat of disinformation features strongly in public discourse, but scientific findings remain conflicted about disinformation effects and reach. Accordingly, indiscriminate warnings about disinformation risk overestimating its effects and associated dangers. Balanced accounts that document… read more here.
Keywords: effects alarmist; downstream effects; disinformation; negative downstream ... See more keywords
What’s Going On? Disinformation, Understanding, and Ignorance
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DOI: 10.1017/epi.2025.10048
Abstract: Disinformation is a growing epistemic threat, yet its connection to understanding remains underexplored. In this paper, I argue that understanding – specifically, understanding how things work and why they work the way they do –… read more here.
Keywords: ignorance; understanding ignorance; disinformation understanding; disinformation ... See more keywords
Mistranslation as disinformation: COVID-19, global imaginaries, and self-serving cosmopolitanism
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DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2021.1898037
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article delves into the politics of the U.S.-China blame-game regarding COVID-19’s origin, particularly Chinese disinformation narratives attributing the virus’s root to the United States. The blame-game is symptomatic of contradictory global imaginaries circulated… read more here.
Keywords: disinformation; disinformation covid; self serving; global imaginaries ... See more keywords
A Picture Paints a Thousand Lies? The Effects and Mechanisms of Multimodal Disinformation and Rebuttals Disseminated via Social Media
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DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2019.1674979
Abstract: Today’s fragmented and digital media environment may create a fertile breeding ground for the uncontrolled spread of disinformation. Although previous research has investigated the effects of misinformation and corrective efforts, we know too little about… read more here.
Keywords: multimodal disinformation; paints thousand; disinformation; fact checkers ... See more keywords
The role of far-right party performance in shaping disinformation concerns of European voters: evidence from the 2024 European Parliament elections
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DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2025.2489088
Abstract: ABSTRACT Concerns about the risk of disinformation in the 2024 European Parliament elections were widespread in European capitals. Simultaneously, the far-right – often linked to the spread of disinformation – gained significant vote shares in… read more here.
Keywords: far right; disinformation; 2024 european; parliament elections ... See more keywords
Introduction to the mixed-up politics of disinformation, anti-feminisms, and misogyny
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DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2023.2284099
Abstract: This Commentary and Criticism section argues that feminist studies and feminisms can be enhanced by addressing the entangled politics of disinformation, anti-feminisms, and misogyny circulating within media cultures. Individuals and groups with anti-vax and anti-mask… read more here.
Keywords: feminisms misogyny; disinformation anti; politics; disinformation ... See more keywords
News media’s legitimization of disinformation: propaganda and the length of the Uluru Statement
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DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2025.2465680
Abstract: ABSTRACT News media notionally plays an important role in democracy by disseminating quality information which the public needs to make democratic decisions in their best interests. Yet, news media can also undermine the health of… read more here.
Keywords: propaganda; news; news media; disinformation ... See more keywords
Features of disinformation: an expert interview study on the perception of disinformation among political, governmental, media and business elites in Germany
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DOI: 10.1080/17457289.2025.2514199
Abstract: ABSTRACT To curb the spread of disinformation, societal decision-makers are working intensively on the design of effective intervention strategies. Primarily elites from the sectors of politics, administration, journalism and economics are responsible for the implementation… read more here.
Keywords: detection; economics; disinformation features; disinformation ... See more keywords
The collective securitization of ‘disinformation’ and the EU's ban on Russia Today and Sputnik
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DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiaf139
Abstract: On 1 March 2022, in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Council of the European Union introduced sanctions that restricted the broadcasting of Russian state-affiliated media Sputnik and Russia Today in the EU.… read more here.
Keywords: securitization; disinformation; russia today; ban ... See more keywords