{"title":"Rethinking Fake News: Disinformation and Ideology during the time of COVID-19 Global Pandemic","authors":"Ronnie Das, W. Ahmed","doi":"10.1177/22779752211027382","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Digital media and citizen journalism has escalated the infiltration of fake news attempting to create a post truth society (Lazer et al., 2018). The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a surge of misinformation leading to anti-mask, anti-vaccine and anti-5G protests on a global scale. Although the term ‘misinformation’ has been generalized in media and scholarly work, there is a fundamental difference between how misinformation impacts society, compared to more strategically planned disinformation attacks. In this study we explore the ideological constructs of citizens towards acceptance or rejection of disinformation during the heightened time of a COVID-19 global health crisis. Our analysis follows two specific disinformation propagandas evaluated through social network analysis of Twitter data in addition to qualitative insights generated from tweets and in-depth interviews.","PeriodicalId":43330,"journal":{"name":"IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"146 - 159"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"21","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/22779752211027382","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Digital media and citizen journalism has escalated the infiltration of fake news attempting to create a post truth society (Lazer et al., 2018). The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a surge of misinformation leading to anti-mask, anti-vaccine and anti-5G protests on a global scale. Although the term ‘misinformation’ has been generalized in media and scholarly work, there is a fundamental difference between how misinformation impacts society, compared to more strategically planned disinformation attacks. In this study we explore the ideological constructs of citizens towards acceptance or rejection of disinformation during the heightened time of a COVID-19 global health crisis. Our analysis follows two specific disinformation propagandas evaluated through social network analysis of Twitter data in addition to qualitative insights generated from tweets and in-depth interviews.
数字媒体和公民新闻业加剧了假新闻的渗透，试图创建一个后真相社会（Lazer et al.，2018）。在新冠肺炎大流行期间，错误信息激增，导致全球范围内的反口罩、反疫苗和反5G抗议活动。尽管“错误信息”一词在媒体和学术工作中被广泛使用，但与更有战略计划的虚假信息攻击相比，错误信息对社会的影响存在根本差异。在这项研究中，我们探讨了在新冠肺炎全球健康危机加剧时期，公民接受或拒绝虚假信息的意识形态结构。我们的分析遵循了两种具体的虚假信息传播，这两种传播是通过社交网络对推特数据的分析以及推特和深度采访产生的定性见解进行评估的。
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