COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective
Title | COVID-19 Disinformation: A Multi-National, Whole of Society Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Ritu Gill |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2022-05-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030948250 |
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to our health and economy, but also has strong implications for defence and security. Indeed, defence leaders have highlighted a second fight surrounding the spread of COVID-19, namely disinformation and preparing to face adversaries willing to exploit the public health crisis for nefarious purposes. The current pandemic is a breeding ground for the propagation of disinformation, as it represents the first major global health event in which large social media platforms have become the main distributor of information. This multi-national edited volume consists of contributions from Defence Science, academia and industry, including NATO Headquarters, United States, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom and Norway. The content is aimed at a diverse audience, including NATO members, researchers from defence and security organizations, academics, and militaries including analysts and practitioners, as well as policy makers. This volume focuses on various aspects of COVID-19 disinformation, including identifying global dominant disinformation narratives and the methods used to spread disinformation, examining COVID-19 disinformation within the broader context of the cognitive domain, examining the psychological effects of COVID-19 disinformation and COVID-19 disinformation on instant messaging platforms, along with examining various countermeasures to disinformation.
This Is Not Propaganda
Title | This Is Not Propaganda PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Pomerantsev |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2019-08-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1541762134 |
Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this "insightful" account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times). When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we've lost not only our grip on peace and democracy -- but our very notion of what those words even mean. Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, "behavioral change" salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia -- but the answers he finds there are not what he expected. Blending reportage, family history, and intellectual adventure, This Is Not Propaganda explores how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves when reality seems to be coming apart.
COVID-19 Disinformation
Title | COVID-19 Disinformation PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- |
ISBN | 9783030948269 |
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a threat to our health and economy, but also has strong implications for defence and security. Indeed, defence leaders have highlighted a second fight surrounding the spread of COVID-19, namely disinformation and preparing to face adversaries willing to exploit the public health crisis for nefarious purposes. The current pandemic is a breeding ground for the propagation of disinformation, as it represents the first major global health event in which large social media platforms have become the main distributor of information. This multi-national edited volume consists of contributions from Defence Science, academia and industry, including NATO Headquarters, United States, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom and Norway. The content is aimed at a diverse audience, including NATO members, researchers from defence and security organizations, academics, and militaries including analysts and practitioners, as well as policy makers. This volume focuses on various aspects of COVID-19 disinformation, including identifying global dominant disinformation narratives and the methods used to spread disinformation, examining COVID-19 disinformation within the broader context of the cognitive domain, examining the psychological effects of COVID-19 disinformation and COVID-19 disinformation on instant messaging platforms, along with examining various countermeasures to disinformation.
Journalism, fake news & disinformation
Title | Journalism, fake news & disinformation PDF eBook |
Author | Ireton, Cherilyn |
Publisher | UNESCO Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2018-09-17 |
Genre | Fake news |
ISBN | 9231002813 |
The Infodemic
Title | The Infodemic PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriele Cosentino |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2023-03-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0755640756 |
What caused the Covid-19 pandemic, a natural spillover event or an accident in a Wuhan laboratory? Were the mitigation measures imposed by many governments - such as lockdowns and mask-wearing mandates - based on scientific evidence, or rather aimed at curtailing civil liberties and disrupting economic activities, under the secret maneuvering of a global cabal of politicians and financiers? And were Covid-19 vaccines effective in curbing the spread of the disease, or were they just a profitable scheme by big pharmaceutical companies? These questions and speculations, some legitimate, some dubious, have been swirling around the globe through social media, alternative information outlets, instant messaging apps, and mainstream media since the beginning of the pandemic, feeding the 'infodemic' - an overwhelming surge of information, misinformation, rumours and conspiracy theories which continue to linger in public and private discourse. With an original take on concepts and theories drawn from post-truth and disinformation studies, the book analyses the 'infodemic' through a series of global case studies. Framing the infodemic as a complex, multi-layered phenomenon with vast geopolitical implications, Gabriele Cosentino reveals the global competition for control in twenty-first century geopolitics between Western liberal democracies and non-Western autocracies, and above all between the United States and China.
Theorizing Mediated Information Distortion
Title | Theorizing Mediated Information Distortion PDF eBook |
Author | Brian H. Spitzberg |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2023-09-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000951871 |
This book explores the phenomenon of distortion of information through media via the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which relevant information distortion and virality have occurred in regard to the disease and its risks. Positing that the interrelated processes of misinformation, disinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories are related forms of distortion of information through media (DIM) and can only be understood through a multilevel theoretical model that incorporates message-based, individual difference, social network-based, societal and geotechnical factors, Brian H. Spitzberg develops an integrative, well-argued, and well-evidenced framework within which these issues can and should be addressed. This book offers a model for further research across such disciplines as communication, journalism/media studies, political science, sociology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, evolutionary psychology, public health, big data analytics, social network analytics, computational linguistics and geographic information sciences, and will interest researchers and students in those areas.
COVID-19: Ultimate Misinformation
Title | COVID-19: Ultimate Misinformation PDF eBook |
Author | Ivor Mectin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2021-11-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Dr Ivor Mectin is presenting his debut book COVID-19: Ultimate Misinformation. This book is a run down of all of the nonsense that we have heard on the internet during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Everything from vaccines being a secret plot by Bill Gates to implant microchips in the population, to consuming horse de-wormer is a miracle cure for COVID-19. Also included is someone with a PhD in English Literature who thinks vaccines can grant time travel powers. Ivor takes aim at the scammers and grifters profiting from the pandemic, examples being Del Bigtree who is selling individual bricks for $500, to Justin Hart's $2750 a month website subscription. This book presents the most comprehensive collection of COVID-19 misinformation anywhere with over 500 pieces of misinformation, making it the ultimate archive of COVID-19 wingnuttery. Howl with laughter at the absurdity - not to mention Ivor's sharp wit that many of you will be familiar with from his twitter account @IvorMectin1. Also, in the early chapters, learn logical arguments against misinformation and conspiracy theories, in addition to how to fact check these tropes. They say you should always end your book pitch with a CTA (Call to Action) and here it is: The only question to answer is why haven't you bought this fantastic book and kept the author in the life of luxury yet?!