Wasserman and Madrid-Morales present research at the Centre for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania
Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales will present their paper “What Motivates the Sharing of Misinformation about China and Covid-19? A Study of Social Media Users in Kenya and South Africa” at the international conference “Narratives of COVID-19 in China and the World: Technology, Society, and Nations” hosted by the...
“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...
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....