[Air-L] AoIR Panel on Gender & Misinformation

[Rossella Rega]

Dear Yvonne,

Thank  you  for this interesting proposal.
I am very keen on the topic you have suggested. I am currently working on a
case study concerning the return to Italy of Silvia Romano (who had been
kidnapped in 2018 by the Islamic group Al Shabaab in Kenya, where she was
working as a volunteer in a rural village) who was the target of multiple
forms of incivility on Twitter and Facebook.
The uncivil attacks have been of different types, but mainly linked to the
use of information distortions. Silvia Romano has become a target of hatred
on three main levels: as a woman, as a Muslim and as an agency volunteer.
The case is interesting because it highlights a reconfiguration of
Islamophobia associated with specific forms of misogyny (stigmatisation of
the woman/victim) and criminalisation of humanitarian activity (this is why
we can talk about 'intersectional incivility').

Let me know what you think about this case, in any case I will be happy to
answer if you have further questions.

best wishes
Rossella

Il giorno ven 17 feb 2023 alle ore 19:06 Sheila Babulal Lalwani via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> ha scritto:

> Dear Yvonne,
>
> Many thanks for your message. I would be very interested in contributing to
> this panel. My paper topic concerns platform governance and the effects of
> gendered misinformation and hate speech on elected politicians. In
> particular, my paper focuses on the women elected leaders of the parliament
> in Germany, the first country to pass platform governance laws.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to answer them.
>
> -Sheila
>
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 11:30 AM Yvonne Eadon via Air-L <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I am putting together a panel on gender & misinformation for AoIR 2023
> with
> > a couple of colleagues. We are looking for one or two additional papers
> > that examine online misinformation, disinformation, and/ or conspiracy
> > theories through the lens of gender and/or gender studies (what are we
> > missing when we don't discuss gender as a significant category in mis-
> and
> > disinfo studies?), gendered case studies (intersectional approaches to
> > online misogyny, harassment of women, etc.), and/ or instances in which
> > women and femmes have either freely spread or pushed back against
> gendered
> > misinformation. We are particularly interested in papers that examine
> these
> > topics in majority world contexts.
> >
> > If interested, please shoot me an email with a 1 - 2 sentence description
> > of your paper.
> >
> > Warmly,
> >
> > Yvonne
> >
> >
> > --
> > Yvonne M. Eadon, MLIS, PhD
> > Postdoctoral Research Fellow
> > Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life <
> http://citap.unc.edu/
> > >
> > University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> > She/ her
> > website <http://yvonneeadon.com> | twitter
> > <https://twitter.com/yvonnemelisande>
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