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Il cortocircuito dell’odio in rete: il ruolo delle emozioni, le contromisure per una “svolta culturale"
2022
The article focuses the radical transformations associated with the affirmation of digital technologies in journalism. The pervasiveness of social media in the search for news in the daily on-life experience and the significance of data in newsmaking practices have opened up new possibilities for accessing and disseminating news, also giving space to a problematic mix of factual and totally (or partially) false or incorrect content, created with different levels of intentionality (disinformation, misinformation, malinformation). Although the use of fake news is not new, the contemporary success of disinformation strategies present peculiar and unprecedented characteristics that pose signifi…
Tackling Online Disinformation. The Construction of 'Trustworthiness' and 'Best Practices' in the European Commission Discourse on COVID-19
2022
Over the last few decades, misleading healthcare information and deceptions with false claims, conspiracy theories (CTs) and consumer fraud have endangered public health on a global scale. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a substantial flow of false information and unceasing attempts by conspirators to influence debates in the official discourses, breeding on the fertile ground of people’s most basic anxieties and the present-day social and economic uncertainty. This paper investigates the discourse of the European Commission on disinformation in order to achieve institutional legitimation through the linguistic and discursive construction of ‘trustworthiness’, ‘…
Social media as the pulse of national security threats : A framework for studying how social media influences young people's safety and security situ…
2019
Social media is becoming more and more of a security threat. Dissatisfaction with the content and quality of the information flow is increasing not only at the nation-state level, but also at the level of people's everyday lives. Social media is one of the key channels for distributing disinformation and it has become a key instrument for influencing political activity in particular. It is difficult to single out individual contributors or culprits when it comes to the dissemination of disinformation due to the rhizomatic nature of the internet and the Western approach to using social media. The same principles such as ease of access to the network, democracy, freedom of speech, and knowled…
Il giornalismo nell'era della disinformazione
2023
L’ascesa delle tecnologie digitali e dei social network, così come i loro effetti sui processi di produzione, ricerca e fruizione di informazioni non sono più una prospettiva riguardante il fu turo del giornalismo: i fenomeni sono già in atto, con tutti i risvolti problematici connessi agli entusiasmi tecnologici e alla diffusa assenza di regole nel far west della rete. La pervasività dei social nell’esperienza quotidiana dell’onlife e la significatività dei dati nelle pratiche di newsma king hanno aperto nuove possibilità per l’accesso e per la diffusione delle notizie, dando, però, spazio a un mix problematico di contenuti totalmente (o parzialmente) falsi o errati. Nel volume studiosi it…
La Comunicazione alla sfida della (dis)informazione
2019
The book focuses on the risks of contemporary informative overload and fake news both on public opinion and journalism. Moreover, different experiences of the Communication Studies Courses of Italian universities are presented
"Media and Society 2022": Proceedings of Scientific Papers
2023
The proceedings represent the collection of reports in two sections of the media and communication science of 80th International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia. The first section was organized under the auspices of the research project “Risks to Democracy Caused by Disinformation and Conspiracy: Reviewing the Latvian Experience” (lzp-2019/1-0278). This project is implemented with the support of the Fundamental and Applied Project Programme by Latvian Council of Science. The focus of the section was the analysis of current and past information processes, the spread of disinformation, communication ethics, as well as the role of social networks in the spread of information …