[Air-L] Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online Report Released w/ Syllabus

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2017-05-17 4:30 GMT+00:00 John Tebbutt <john.tebbutt at monash.edu>:

> Thanks Alice.
>
> In Australia we've just opened a Senate committee hearing into the Future
> of Public Interest Journalism after the sacking of journalists in one of
> our major news organisations and the foreshadowed retrenchment of
> photographers in another:
> http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Future_of_
> Public_Interest_Journalism/PublicInterestJournalism
>
> I'll pass it on to them!
> John
> ________________________________________
>
> Dr John Tebbutt
> Communications and Media Studies
> School of Media Film & Journalism,
> Monash University
>
>
>
> On 17 May 2017 at 04:56, 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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