[Air-L] Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online Report Released w/ Syllabus
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yohanan.ouaknine at ois.co.il
Tue May 16 12:19:55 PDT 2017
Wow!
Yohanan Ouaknine
Bar Ilan University
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Alice E. Marwick <amarwick at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very pleased to announce a giant new report I wrote with Becca Lewis on
> "Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online."
>
> You can find it here:
> https://datasociety.net/output/media-manipulation-and-disinfo-online/
>
> In it, we talk about how far-right groups use a variety of techniques to
> spread and amplify their messaging through mainstream media. We talk about
> who these people are (trolls, white nationalists, men's rights activists);
> where they congregate online (the chans, various blogs and YouTube
> channels, Discord servers); the tactics and strategies they use
> (participatory culture, memes, radicalization); what motivates them
> (ideology, money, and status/fame), and some possible outcomes
> (misinformation, decreased trust in media, increased radicalization).
>
> It is 100pp long including an extensive bibliography. The report is very
> detailed, but is written in an accessible style that should appeal to
> non-academics as well.
>
> We've also released a syllabus (including assignments!) that you can use to
> incorporate the report into your classroom:
>
> https://datasociety.net/pubs/oh/DataAndSociety_Syllabus-
> MediaManipulationAndDisinformationOnline.pdf
>
> Would love to hear feedback and please feel free to share with friends,
> colleagues, and social media.
>
> Warmly
> Alice
>
> --
> Alice E. Marwick, PhD
> Fellow, Data & Society
> Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
> University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (as of 2017)
> amarwick at gmail.com
> <https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=amarwick@gmail.com>
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