Dani Madrid-Morales presents on Recentering Disinformation Studies at City University of London
On the 5th of April Dani Madrid-Morales presented on Re-centering Disinformation Studies at City University of London. Madrid-Morales presented alongside panelists Dr Lindsey Bluebell, Dr Mel Bunce, Dr Zahera Harb and Dr Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar. In addition to discussing the importance of ‘de-westernising’ disinformation studies, Madrid-Morales introduced his new...
Disinformation in the Global South: a new book edited by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales
Disinformation in the Global South was published on April 14. Both print and electronic copies are available. You can use the code ICAW2 until June 30, 2022 to get a 20% discount on your copy. Media and communication scholars Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales to release a new book...
Novel study reveals efforts in the Global South to counter the information disorder
From teams of independent fact-checkers in Latin America, to policy makers in Africa and the Middle East, to media education specialists in Asia, organizations and movements in lower- and middle-income countries are rising to combat the problem of so-called “fake news.” Meeting the Challenges of Information Disorder in the...
Researchers at Cardiff University find that people in the UK can spot fake news on COVID-19
Researchers at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Culture have found that the UK public can spot fake news about COVID-19, but but don’t realise the UK’s death toll is far higher than in many other countries. In a small-scale, exploratory study, Stephen Cushion, Nikki Soo, Maria Kyriakidou...
“Deconstructing De-legitimization of Mainstream Media as Sources of Authentic News in the Post-Truth Era”
A new article was publishedd in Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research by Moses Ofome Asak and Tshepang Bright Molale, researchers at North West University in South Africa, that explores the publication of “fake news reportage” on two South African newspapers. Here is the abstract of...
Working on a New Book on False News in the Global South
The lead researchers of the Misinformation, Disinformation & False News Research Project, Herman Wasserman and Dani Madridd-Morales, are working on an edited volume titled Rumors, false news and disinformation in the Global South. It will be published by Wiley, and it is expected to come out in early 2021....
New Publication in African Journalism Studies
Africa’s leading academic journal in Media and Communication, African Journalism Studies, has published the paper “An Exploratory Study of “Fake News” and Media Trust in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa” by Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales, lead researchers of the Misinformation, Disinformation & False News in Africa Research Project....