It's not about the influence of "fake news" on the election outcome, but we recently made available a working paper on this topic.
=== Fakes, News and the Election: A New Taxonomy for the Study of Misleading Information within the Hybrid Media System Abstract: The widely unexpected outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election prompted a broad debate on the role played by “fake-news” circulating on social media during political campaigns. Despite a relatively vast amount of existing literature on the topic, a general lack of conceptual coherence and a rapidly changing news eco-system hinder the development of effective strategies to tackle the issue. Leveraging on four strands of research in the existing scholarship, the paper introduces a radically new model aimed at describing the process through which misleading information spreads within the hybrid media system in the post-truth era. The application of the model results in four different typologies of propagations. These typologies are used to describe real cases of misleading information from the 2016 US Presidential election. The paper discusses the contribution and implication of the model in tackling the issue of misleading information on a theoretical, empirical, and practical level. Keywords: misinformation, disinformation, hybrid news system, news-making, elections Giglietto, Fabio and Iannelli, Laura and Rossi, Luca and Valeriani, Augusto, Fakes, News and the Election: A New Taxonomy for the Study of Misleading Information within the Hybrid Media System (November 30, 2016). Convegno AssoComPol 2016 (Urbino, 15-17 Dicembre 2016), Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2878774 === I tend to avoid pointing to my own work, but I've made an exception in this case due to the high interest in the topic and the debate tending to shifting toward the need of more precise concepts and definitions. Best regards, Fabio Giglietto On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:55 AM MC Cambre <mcam...@ualberta.ca> wrote: I love this thread. I have been collecting all the 'fake news' style announcements that I come across but I have not seen any academic work yet. cc On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Yosem Companys <compa...@stanford.edu> wrote: > Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media) news > influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome? > > Thanks, > Yosem > _______________________________________________ > The ai...@listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ -- -- *Carolina Cambre PhD Assistant Professor Concordia University, Montreal Centre for Global Citizenship Education & Research Fellow Affiliate of Concordia University - Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling http://storytelling.concordia.ca/content/cambre-carolina <http://storytelling.concordia.ca/content/cambre-carolina> Book: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/ <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/>* <http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-semiotics-of-che-guevara-9781472505293/> _______________________________________________ The ai...@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
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