an article by Victoria L. Rubin (University of Western Ontario, London, Canada) published in Journal of Documentation Volume 75 Issue 5 (2019)
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to treat disinformation and misinformation (intentionally deceptive and unintentionally inaccurate misleading information, respectively) as a socio-cultural technology-enabled epidemic in digital news, propagated via social media.
Design/methodology/approach
The proposed disinformation and misinformation triangle is a conceptual model that identifies the three minimal causal factors occurring simultaneously to facilitate the spread of the epidemic at the societal level.
Findings
Following the epidemiological disease triangle model, the three interacting causal factors are translated into the digital news context: the virulent pathogens are falsifications, clickbait, satirical “fakes” and other deceptive or misleading news content; the susceptible hosts are information-overloaded, time-pressed news readers lacking media literacy skills; and the conducive environments are polluted poorly regulated social media platforms that propagate and encourage the spread of various “fakes.”
Originality/value
The three types of interventions – automation, education and regulation – are proposed as a set of holistic measures to reveal, and potentially control, predict and prevent further proliferation of the epidemic. Partial automated solutions with natural language processing, machine learning and various automated detection techniques are currently available, as exemplified here briefly. Automated solutions assist (but not replace) human judgments about whether news is truthful and credible. Information literacy efforts require further in-depth understanding of the phenomenon and interdisciplinary collaboration outside of the traditional library and information science, incorporating media studies, journalism, interpersonal psychology and communication perspectives.
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Monday, 14 October 2019
Monday, 10 September 2018
How do children and their families experience food poverty according to UK newspaper media 2006‐15?
an article by Abigail Knight, Julia Brannen, Rebecca O’Connell and Laura Hamilton (University College London Institute of Education, UK) published in Journal of Poverty and Social Justice Volume 26 Number 2 (June 2018)
Abstract
This paper contributes to scholarship concerned with media representations of poverty by exploring newspaper coverage of food poverty as experienced by UK children and families.
Our content analysis of six contrasting print newspapers from 2006‐15 finds that reporting of children’s and families’ food poverty begins in 2011, peaks in 2014 and is dominated by articles about foodbanks.
Narrative analysis identifies differences as well as similarities in the ways the problem is constructed in papers with different political stances as well as notable absences in the coverage, including the broader dimensions of food poverty and the views of children themselves.
Abstract
This paper contributes to scholarship concerned with media representations of poverty by exploring newspaper coverage of food poverty as experienced by UK children and families.
Our content analysis of six contrasting print newspapers from 2006‐15 finds that reporting of children’s and families’ food poverty begins in 2011, peaks in 2014 and is dominated by articles about foodbanks.
Narrative analysis identifies differences as well as similarities in the ways the problem is constructed in papers with different political stances as well as notable absences in the coverage, including the broader dimensions of food poverty and the views of children themselves.
Sunday, 8 October 2017
“Losers” and “Winners”: Framing of online self-disclosure in online news media
an article by Tamar Ashuri
(Tel Aviv University, Israel)
and Ruth Halperin (Oranim Academic College of Education, Tivon, Israel) published in The Information Society
An International Journal
Volume 33 Issue 5 (2017)
Abstract
The intensification of online disclosure of personal information, coupled with the ability to link personal information to those who disclose it, poses important questions regarding the benefits and risks associated with sharing of personal data.
This article examines the manifestation of these concerns in news media.
Guided by framing theory, it seeks to ascertain the prevailing frames for personal information sharing and to determine whether such framing facilitates debate on issues related to self-disclosure. Articles published in top Israeli online newspapers were analyzed (n = 609).
Findings show that the individual user, the state, and corporations are framed as key actors that shape online self-disclosure practices and their outcomes. Furthermore, the individual user, while portrayed as chief actor, is seen as the weakest player.
Abstract
The intensification of online disclosure of personal information, coupled with the ability to link personal information to those who disclose it, poses important questions regarding the benefits and risks associated with sharing of personal data.
This article examines the manifestation of these concerns in news media.
Guided by framing theory, it seeks to ascertain the prevailing frames for personal information sharing and to determine whether such framing facilitates debate on issues related to self-disclosure. Articles published in top Israeli online newspapers were analyzed (n = 609).
Findings show that the individual user, the state, and corporations are framed as key actors that shape online self-disclosure practices and their outcomes. Furthermore, the individual user, while portrayed as chief actor, is seen as the weakest player.
Monday, 12 March 2012
The letters page
a paper (CEPCP363) by Alan Manning published in CentrePiece – The Magazine for Economic Performance produced by the CEP February 2012
Abstract
Alan Manning questions the value of researchers conducting debates about economic policy through the pages of newspapers.
Full article (PDF 2pp)
Hazel’s comment:
I’d question the wisdom of conducting any debate through the pages of newspapers or on Twitter or, indeed, in any written medium. It is far too easy for words to take on a different meaning in the mind of the reader from that which was in the mind of the writer. Face-to-face debate can be questioned with “Did you really mean what I understood you to be saying?” Much harder to do on paper/screen.
Abstract
Alan Manning questions the value of researchers conducting debates about economic policy through the pages of newspapers.
Full article (PDF 2pp)
Hazel’s comment:
I’d question the wisdom of conducting any debate through the pages of newspapers or on Twitter or, indeed, in any written medium. It is far too easy for words to take on a different meaning in the mind of the reader from that which was in the mind of the writer. Face-to-face debate can be questioned with “Did you really mean what I understood you to be saying?” Much harder to do on paper/screen.
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