Digital disinformation and the imaginative dimension of communication

Added Title

Advancing journalism and communication research: New theories and concepts

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Communication

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

First Page

1

Last Page

18

Publication Date

2020

Abstract

To nuance current understandings of the proliferation of digital disinformation, this article seeks to develop an approach that emphasizes the imaginative dimension of this communication phenomenon. Anchored on ideas about the sociality of communication, this piece conceptualizes how fake news and political trolling online work in relation to particular shared understandings people have of their socio- political landscape. It offers the possibility of expanding the information-oriented approach to communication taken by many journalistic interventions against digital disinformation. It particularly opens up alternatives to the problematic strategy of challenging social media manipulation solely by doubling down on objectivity and facts.

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Disciplines

Communication | Social Influence and Political Communication

Note

"Special issue: Advancing journalism and communication research: New theories and concepts"

Keywords

Disinformation; Fake news

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