[Air-L] New Report: Digital Misinformation in 9 election cycles in Asia

[Nishant Shah]

Dear All,
I was just informed that the link that I shared is for the German language
report. Please find the English version here
https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/publications/publication/did/the-making-of-misinformed-choice-digital-technologies-in-election-cycles-insights-from-nine-countries-in-asia
Thank you for all the peeps who pointed out the language change.
Warmest
Nishant

On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 1:12 PM Nishant Shah <itsnishant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> I am very thrilled to share with you that our work  (Anushree Majumdar and
> I) with the Upgrade Democracy
> <https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/our-projects/upgrade-democracy>project,
> looking at digital disinformation in 9 major election cycles in Asia, post
> the COVID19 pandemic management shifts in the region, has resulted into a
> new report titled The Making of Misinformation Choice.
> <https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/publications/publication/did/the-making-of-misinformed-choice-die-wirkung-digitaler-technologien-in-wahlkaempfen-einblicke-aus-neun-laendern-asiens?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2x5A_mlihl7JrjnTPrwSRaJejsHcxJVSUBq3pwMq3p_eSxoz1Y5Uzmcds_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw>
>
>
> The report builds on critical policy and literature review, extensive
> interviews with fact-checkers, disinformation debunking activists, and
> civil society organisations in 9 regions and countries, to think about the
> ways in which new information regimes are established that persuade and
> convince people to make misinformed choices in electoral actions.
>
> The report produces a new framework of digital misinformation as a stack,
> looks at the ways in which information contamination and manipulation
> happens, examines the difficulties in doing fact-checking as individual
> actors, and looks at the best practices and counter-measures that are being
> tried and developed across the region.
>
> The report was a collaboration between The Digital Narratives Studio
> <https://digitalnarratives.com.cuhk.edu.hk/> and The Digital Asia Hub,
> <https://www.digitalasiahub.org/> with strong support from fellow BKCer
> Malavika Jayaram, who facilitated the project, and with generous support
> and resources by Cathleen Berger  <https://cathleenberger.com/about/>(another
> BKC community node) from the Bertelsmann Stiftung.
>
> We hope that you enjoy reading the report and that it helps add to the
> critical discourse in the field. We would, of course, always be thrilled to
> have more conversations and connections on this.
>
> Warm regards,
> NIshant
>
> --
> Dr. Nishant Shah (Ph.D.)
> Assoc. Professor, Global Media, Chinese University of Hong Kong
> Faculty Associate, Berkman-Klein Centre for Internet & Society, Harvard
> University (USA)
> Knowledge Partner, Digital Asia Hub (Hong Kong), Point of View (Mumbai)
> https://nishantshah.online
>


-- 
Dr. Nishant Shah (Ph.D.)
Assoc. Professor, Global Media, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Faculty Associate, Berkman-Klein Centre for Internet & Society, Harvard
University (USA)
Knowledge Partner, Digital Asia Hub (Hong Kong), Point of View (Mumbai)
https://nishantshah.online