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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"disinformation"”.
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Media disinformation and interpersonal intervention among teenagers.
Dept. of Communication Studies. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1980 .F988. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1980.
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Correcting Fear-arousing Disinformation on Social Media in the Spread of a Health Virus: A Focus on Situational Fear, Situational Threat Appraisal, Belief in Disinformation, and Intention to Spread Disinformation on Social Media
<p>Disinformation is prevalent in the current social media environment and circulated just as quickly as truthful information. Research has investigated what motivates the spread of disinformation and how to combat it. However, limited research focuses on how fear-arousing disinformation during …
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Disinformation, Science Communication and Trust: Food Rumours in Thailand
… This is paralleled to three empirical studies; disinformation in rumours, science communication from debunkers and the way people trust in the rumours and the debunkers. The thesis begins addressing the questions of features of food rumours on Facebook in Thailand during 2013-2016 because this …
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Countering disinformation : using systems thinking to develop an integrated approach
Although disinformation has been used by malicious actors throughout the ages, technological advances and social changes in the Internet era have made it a more potent problem than ever before. Several key elections in 2016 were heavily influenced by disinformation -- including the Brexit …
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External enemies in contemporary disinformation discourse on the russia-ukraine war /
… it has become much easier to spread and consume disinformation, where one side is blaming the other and as some scholars notice, this discourse has become a battlefield for some politicians, where they seek to damage the reputation of one another. A great amount of research has been done on the …
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Subversive Threat: the Danger of Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation to Western Security
… as an instrument to support policy. Propaganda, disinformation, and deception were particularly important tools of the Soviet Union in international relations. This thesis examines how propaganda is often used and how democratic Western nations are vulnerable to its effects. The manipulation of …
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Overcoming Misinformation and Disinformation During a School Bond Election: A Case Study
… their voters in an era of misinformation and disinformation, there is little available. Most recent research on misinformation and disinformation is focused on health and political topics resulting in a lack of scholarly and practitioner-oriented knowledgebases concerning district leaders' …
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Disinformation, Exclusion, and its Politics: Canadian Right-Wing Extremist Community within a Digital Landscape
… context, while for forum replies these were disinformation, offensive speech, and politics. I also quantified the extent of this community’s activity and found that most content shared to the website is posted by less than six active members. This thesis argues that discursive constructions …
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Analyzing the Usability of Natural Language Processing for Detecting Disinformation Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
… media. We analyze the history of international disinformation policy in the European Union and find that policies fail because they attempt to regulate based on the effect of information manipulation rather than developing tractable definitions and characterizations of illicit information …
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Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Erosion of Institutional Trust: The Role of Social Media in Democracy
… years, social media-driven misinformation and disinformation have helped erode public trust in democratic institutions. This thesis examines how constant exposure to false online content correlates with declining confidence in democracy and evaluates the roles of platforms, influencers, and …
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Why Do People Spread Disinformation on Social Media? The Role of Social Identity and Perceived Morality
“Disinformation” is false or misleading information that is deliberately created or spread. In recent years, social media platforms have been used to rapidly disseminate disinformation for personal, political, and financial gain, or by those wishing to cause harm. Yet how far disinformation will …
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Defeating Cap-and-Trade: Contrarian Access, Organised Disinformation, and the Influence of Fossil Fuel Money in Congress
… less attention has been paid to how organised disinformation and vested economic interests shaped the legislative process itself. By integrating theories of interest group influence with frameworks on climate disinformation, this research investigates three interrelated questions: the extent of …
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Social media ecosystem and disinformation. The dynamics of the debate on nuclear energy, radioactive waste and the atomic conflict narrative.
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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“We need to save civilization first”: examining the role of cyberlibertarian design in the disinformation culture of Reddit’s /r/The_Donald
Cyberlibertarian design principles have become an increasingly common feature of mainstream social media platforms, with Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and other platforms employing once-experimental models of content moderation that assume a cyberlibertarian stance towards free speech. Seeking …
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Analýza mediálního rámcování války na Ukrajině v českých dezinformačních médiích v prvních měsících (únor-duben 2022)
… the media framing of the war in Ukraine on Czech disinformation websites during the first months of the Russian invasion in 2022. The main objective of the thesis is to identify dominant narratives and describe the ways in which selected Czech disinformation websites frame the war in Ukraine. The …
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From Faking Online Content to Orchestrating Its Creation by Public Workers: Examining Russian Disinformation Production Organisations through Curriculum Vitae Analysis (2013-2024)
… focusing on its organisations that produce disinformation, the transition from the Internet Research Agency to the Patriot Media Group and the emergence of ANO Dialog. It shows how the Internet Research Agency operated as a sophisticated "troll farm" during the early stages of the …
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Radical Activism in the Misinformation Age - How can Social Movements Counter the Circulation of Online False Information About Climate Change?
Over the past several years, online disinformation and misinformation concerning climate change have gained substantive attention within the scientific community. However, while the dynamics that drive the circulation of false online information have been analysed extensively, it remains unclear …
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Manufacturing dissent : assessing the methods and impact of RT (Russia Today)
… concepts of soft power, propaganda, and disinformation to spread disruption and doubt throughout the media landscape in a hybrid model that can be termed "Disinformation 2.0." I go on to ask if established frameworks for measuring media engagement are able to accurately capture RT's …
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