I wrote a short piece -- just before this "fake news" issue (a term I am also not a big fan of) exploded in the media -- that was kind of a literature review on anti-democratic trolling and disinformation globally. We have been calling "fake news" and the related manipulation of online political space "distributed denial-of-democracy attacks" or "DDOD attacks." Check out my article, The Distributed Denial of Democracy <https://medium.com/@dswis/the-distributed-denial-of-democracy-23ce8a3ad3d8#.7xk6n55ai>. It may be of interest.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Donna Oglesby <ogles...@eckerd.edu> wrote: > "Fake News" is an imprecise term. Definition is essential. Some scholars > work on exactly that. Check out Don Fallis. An example of his thinking on > the subject is here: > > http://www.u.arizona.edu/~fallis/LIB%2063.3%2005.%20fallis%20401_426.pdf > > Donna Oglesby > > > On Dec 12, 2016, at 12:13 PM, MC Cambre <mcam...@ualberta.ca> wrote: > > This burns me because I fell for the professor blacklist story (had some > people I knew on it) even after I had hunted down all the references, and > the organization that started it (I still don't even know if they are real). > > Just wondering if we are overlooking outright lying? > https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/a-clinton-fan-manufactur > ed-fake-news-that-msnbc-personalities-spread-to-discredit-wikileaks-docs/ > The issue is mushrooming online with sites now dedicated to 'debunking' > fake news as well. > At the same time there is implicit trust of search engines like Google, > while they actually work to camouflage them. > http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/6/13850230/fake-news-sites-g > oogle-search-facebook-instant-articles > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 3:28 PM, kalev leetaru <kalev.leeta...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The concept of "fake news" is very complex, ranging from satirical to >> misleading to malicious content and, when looking globally, covers not >> just >> social media, but SMS and FTF communication. Much like humor, where one >> person's hilarious joke might be deeply offensive to another, a good >> portion of "fake news" revolves around how societies and peoples with >> different backgrounds interpret and construct meaning from a shared set of >> information. Paul Linebarger's 1948 book "Psychological Warfare" is a >> powerful read into the roots and methodology of inorganic constructionism >> of the kind that underlies much of the hundred shades of gray that we >> today >> frequently label as "fake news." This is also why purely technological >> solutions will always struggle with this complex middle ground that >> constitutes a large portion of "fake news." Instead, "information >> literacy" >> coupled with technological assistance offer perhaps the most robust path >> forward. >> >> You can see more in my latest pieces: >> >> http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/11/30/why-stop >> ping-fake-news-is-so-hard/ >> http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/10/the-inve >> rted-pyramid-and-how-fake-news-weaponized-modern-journalistic-practice/ >> http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/11/the-glob >> al-perspective-on-fake-news/ >> http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/11/how-data >> -and-information-literacy-could-end-fake-news/ >> >> Kalev >> http:/kalevleetaru.com/ >> http://blog.gdeltproject.org/ >> >> >> On Friday, December 9, 2016, 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 <javascript:;> 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/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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/ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/> > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. 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