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  title info:
    title: Disinformation in the global South
  name:
    name part: Wasserman, Herman
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Madrid-Morales, Dani
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Essay
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: "The recent rampant global problem of the rampant spread of disinformation in and through the digital ecosystem can perhaps be traced directly to the technological changes in the realm of media production, circulation and consumption. As media tools have become commonplace and user-friendly, the utopian dream of critical media scholarship that sought to democratize speech seems closer to reality than ever before. Alongside this process, the simultaneous decline of editorial authority of traditional media organizations has led to the rise of practices such as citizen journalism that have provided checks and balances to fill in the gaps in coverage of dominant top-down media institutions. Additionally, as users have gradually appropriated the available tools of media production, they have done so for various subversive ends including a now thriving global culture of parody, satire and critique (Wasserman 2020; Kumar 2015) using existing genres and formats to challenge dominant media texts, institutions and discourses. Often adopting the format of the very texts they seek to critique, parodic texts such as news reports and analysis don't fit the category of misinformation as they openly reveal their fake nature, even if towards the end"--
  table of contents: Section 1 -- Histories, Theories, and Methods -- 1 Contextualizing Fake News: Can Online Falsehoods Spread Fast When Internet Is Slow? -- 2 Disinformation in Arab Media: Cultural Histories and Political Dynamics -- 3 Manipulated Facts and Spreadable Fantasies: Battles Over History in the Indian Digital Sphere -- 4 Research Methods in Comparative Disinformation Studies -- Section 2 -- Cultures of Disinformation -- 5 Noise in Kinshasa: Ethnographic Notes on the Meanings of Mis- and Disinformation in a Post-Colonial African City -- 6 Aliens, Spies, and Staged Vandalism: Disinformation in the 2019 Protests in Chile -- 7 Encountering and Correcting Misinformation on WhatsApp: The Roles of User Motivations and Trust in Messaging Group Members -- 8 Rumor Debunking as a Propaganda and Censorship Strategy in China: The Case of the COVID-19 Outbreak -- 9 Media System Incentives for Disinformation: Exploring the Relationships Between Institutional Design and Disinformation Vulnerability -- 10 Lies, Damned Lies, and Development: Why Statistics and Data Can No Longer Confront Disinformation in the Global South -- Section 3 -- Responses: Southern Perspectives -- 11 Online Misinformation: Policy Lessons from the Global South -- 12 Responses to Misinformation: Examining the Kenyan Context -- 13 How Three Mission-Driven News Organizations in the Global South Combat Disinformation Through Investigation, Innovation, Advocacy, and Education
  note: edited by Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: d------
  subject:
    topic: Mass media
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Developing countries
  subject:
    topic: Disinformation
    geographic: Developing countries
  subject:
    topic: Fake news
    geographic: Developing countries
  subject:
    topic: Press and politics
    geographic: Developing countries
  classification: P92.2 .D57 2022
  classification: 302.2309724
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    title info:
      title: Disinformation in the global South
    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2021
    identifier: (DLC) 2021033028
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210930
    record change date: 20260214233552.1
    record identifier: in00004687328
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng