What is misinformation and disinformation? Understanding multi-stakeholders’ perspectives in the Asia Pacific
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6234726 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Gibbons (0000-0002-0847-5639, Edward A. Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, corresponding author), Andrea Carson (0000-0001-5503-3334, La Trobe University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 231-247 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10361146.2022.2122776 |
| OpenAlex | W4297237902 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 11 |
Misinformation and disinformation on digital platforms can cause serious harms by undermining the integrity of elections, destabilising political systems, and derailing public health messages. Yet, key decision-makers still struggle to agree on definitions of these terms. This dissensus can frustrate holistic approaches needed to tackle the harms caused by online falsehoods. This article focuses on the Asia Pacific and draws upon a comprehensive set of expert interviews in Singapore and Indonesia to investigate how digital platforms, civil society actors, academics, and journalists conceptualise misinformation and disinformation. We find existing definitions have been developed in 'information silos'. In response, we map stakeholders' key definitional indicators of misinformation and disinformation to identify overlap and difference and to explicate the role of harm in their conceptualisations. This framework is used to recast working definitions of misinformation and disinformation with the intention of assisting greater stakeholder collaboration needed to mitigate its societal harms
Computer security · Disinformation · Harm · Internet privacy · Key (lock · Misinformation · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Stakeholder · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Social Media and Politics
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| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |