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Government communication as a means to combat disinformation in Spain and Flanders: the case of Covid-19

open access: yesCírculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación
The COVID-19 crisis was accompanied by an “infodemic” of disinformation on an unprecedented scale. Governments had to tackle the detrimental effects of disinformation on society by adopting various communicative strategies.
Evelien Vandecraen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘‘No idea…’’ : what do German economy and journalism elites know about digital disinformation characteristics?

open access: yes, 2023
The spread of false information is a growing problem in societies governed by platforms that allow any person with internet access to create, share, and disseminate false information to a global audience. Besides more traditional strategies to distribute
Bösch, Marcus   +2 more
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Predictors of likelihood of sharing disinformation on social media 2019-2020

open access: yes, 2020
Individuals who encounter false information on social media may actively spread it further, by sharing or otherwise engaging with it. Much of the spread of disinformation can thus be attributed to human action. This project explored the effect of message
Buchanan, T.
core   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying Networked Influence: How Much Do Disinformation Spreaders’ Networks Drive Their Public Engagement Outcomes?

open access: yesSocial Media + Society
Although previous studies have recognized the widespread presence of disinformation networks, we know little about the extent to which such networks affect the ability of disinformation spreaders to disseminate falsehoods. In this study, we conceptualize
Aimei Yang, Dmitri Williams
doaj   +1 more source

Revisiting the Political Economy of Agriculture in 21st Century Food Systems

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1932, Joseph Duncan argued in the Journal of Agricultural Economics that agricultural economists should engage more explicitly with politics. Nearly a century later, the political economy of food and agriculture has expanded in both scope and complexity.
Danielle Resnick, Johan Swinnen
wiley   +1 more source

Disinformation-for-Hire as Everyday Digital Labor: Introduction to the Special Issue

open access: yesSocial Media + Society
This introduction for the special issue “Disinformation-for-Hire as Everyday Digital Labor” carves out a specific area of inquiry within the ever-growing field of disinformation studies, with its sharp focus on the commercial transactions, organizational
Rafael Grohmann, Jonathan Corpus Ong
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the Influence of Disinformation Narratives on a Divisive Election Campaign

open access: yesCommunication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad)
Despite extensive research on disinformation, its societal impact remains uncertain. Previous studies have primarily focused on the spread of disinformation, especially on platforms like Twitter, or on how exposure influences attitudes.
Jaume Suau Martínez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regulating Algorithmic Disinformation

open access: yesThe Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, 2023
Disinformation is endemic in the digital age, seriously harming the public interest in democracy, health care, and national security. Increasingly, disinformation is created and disseminated by social media algorithms. Algorithmic disinformation, a new phenomenon, thus looms large in contemporary society.
openaire   +1 more source

Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
wiley   +1 more source

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