Research Methods in Comparative Disinformation Studies

and, Dani Madrid‐Morales; Wasserman, Herman

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“…From Kenya to Chile, South Africa to China, Philippines to Nigeria, this collection answers the urgent need for scholarship on disinformation in the Global South. As Madrid-Morales and Wasserman (2022, p. 210) rightly conclude, this volume “echoes enduring calls to de-westernize the study of communication phenomena, including mediated communication and journalism studies.”…”

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Book Review: Disinformation in the Global South, by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales, eds.

Matsilele

2023

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Much of scholarly attention on disinformation has focused on debates from the developed world without much reflection on the developing world, often characterized as the Global South. Few notable works from the Global South (Chenzi, 2021; Ong, 2022) look at the political economy of fake news and the intersection of fake news, xenophobia, and COVID-19. However, no studies conducted to date are encompassing, geographically expansive, and culturally inclusive as the edited volume from Herman Wasserman-Professor of Media Studies at the

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Book Review: Disinformation in the Global South, by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales, eds.

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2023

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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“…In this article, we draw from interviews with 37 fact-checking experts to understand the impact of social platforms on the methods and strategies employed by fact-checkers operating outside WEIRD countries. As social platforms constitute the main landscape where contentious communication takes place, we probe how the governance of content moderation impinges on fact-checking practices in contexts where the management of information disorders is often overlooked (Madrid-Morales and Wasserman, 2022). To this end, this study seeks to probe a) the strategies developed by fact-checkers to gain and maintain credibility with social media users; b) changes implemented by fact-checkers to comply with the expectations of social media companies; c) the relationship between social platforms and non-WEIRD fact-checkers.…”

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The WEIRD Governance of Fact-Checking and the Politics of Content Moderation

Vinhas,

Bastos

2023

SSRN Journal

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“…We examine these issues by comparing the results of two survey studies, one in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa (Study 1), and one in the United States (Study 2). In doing so, we address two important shortcomings of existing work: (a) the limited amount of research exploring misinformation sharing behavior and political engagement in the Global South; and (b) the lack of comparative studies between countries in the Global North and the Global South (Madrid-Morales and Wasserman, 2022). Most work has focused on countries in Europe and North America (Allcott and Gentzkow, 2017;Grinberg et al, 2019;Guess et al, 2019) limiting the empirical and theoretical scope of existing research.…”

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Online political engagement, cognitive skills and engagement with misinformation: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States

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Madrid-Morales

Tully

2022

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PurposeInformational use of social media facilitates political engagement. Yet, there is also evidence of the perils of frequent political engagement in misinformation propagation. This study aims to examine the association between online political engagement, perceived exposure to misinformation, individuals’ cognitive characteristics and misinformation sharing.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, online surveys were conducted in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa (Study 1) and the United States (Study 2).FindingsStudy 1 finds that online political engagement is positively associated with perceived exposure to and sharing of misinformation. Mediation analyses suggest that the relationship between online political engagement and misinformation sharing is mediated by perceived exposure to misinformation. Further, the likelihood of sharing misinformation is found to increase at higher levels of online political engagement, but those with low need for cognition (NFC) are more vulnerable to such sharing. Study 2 explores cognitive ability in place of NFC. The results follow similar patterns as Study 1 – online political engagement is linked to misinformation sharing via higher perceived exposure to misinformation. The authors also find that the tendency to share misinformation increases with frequent exposure to misinformation but those with lower cognitive ability are more prone to such sharing.Originality/valueIn both contexts, the data show that perceived exposure to misinformation mediates the relationship between online political engagement and misinformation sharing and those with low NFC and cognitive ability are more vulnerable. Overall, the findings offer insight into the mechanisms of political engagement and sharing misinformation.

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Research Methods in Comparative Disinformation Studies

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

Book Review: Disinformation in the Global South, by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales, eds.

Book Review: Disinformation in the Global South, by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales, eds.

The WEIRD Governance of Fact-Checking and the Politics of Content Moderation

Online political engagement, cognitive skills and engagement with misinformation: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States

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