Brain power

A reading list and primer on digital disinformation

In previous RealKM Magazine articles, we’ve discussed the phenomena of digital disinformation, including how knowledge management can help the fight against it. The term ‘disinformation’ is most commonly understood to mean false information that is knowingly disseminated with malicious intent.

In a recently published annotated bibliography, Gabrielle Lim of the Citizen Lab1 provides a foundational understanding of the immense amount of work that has been done in the last few years on digital disinformation and where future research may be heading. The sources are divided into nine categories of interest and include articles and reports from academic journals, research institutes, non-profit organizations, and news media, reflecting the multidisciplinary and sociotechnical nature of the subject.

The categories of interest are:

  1. General
  2. Creation and dissemination
  3. Social media
  4. Advertising and marketing
  5. Political science and international relations
  6. Cognitive science
  7. Mitigation and solutions
  8. Detection
  9. Measuring reach.

For each category, both a concise list of sources of note and more detailed bibliographic information are given.

Article and header image source: Disinformation Annotated Bibliography, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Note:

  1. The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

Also published on Medium.

Bruce Boyes

Bruce Boyes is a knowledge management (KM), environmental management, and education thought leader with more than 40 years of experience. As editor and lead writer of the award-winning RealKM Magazine, he has personally written more than 500 articles and published more than 2,000 articles overall, resulting in more than 2 million reader views. With a demonstrated ability to identify and implement innovative solutions to social and ecological complexity, Bruce has successfully completed more than 40 programs, projects, and initiatives including leading complex major programs. His many other career highlights include: leading the KM community KM and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) initiative, using agile approaches to oversee the on time and under budget implementation of an award-winning $77.4 million recovery program for one of Australia's most iconic river systems, leading a knowledge strategy process for Australia’s 56 natural resource management (NRM) regional organisations, pioneering collaborative learning and governance approaches to empower communities to sustainably manage landscapes and catchments in the face of complexity, being one of the first to join a new landmark aviation complexity initiative, initiating and teaching two new knowledge management subjects at Shanxi University in China, and writing numerous notable environmental strategies, reports, and other works. Bruce is currently a PhD candidate in the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group at Wageningen University and Research, and holds a Master of Environmental Management with Distinction and a Certificate of Technology (Electronics). As well as his work for RealKM Magazine, Bruce currently also teaches in the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) Certified High-school Pathway (CHP) program in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China.

Related Articles

Back to top button