[Commlist] Special section for IJOC entitled “True Costs of Misinformation” published

Newly published special section for IJOC entitled “True Costs of 
Misinformation”:

Guest-edited by Jonathan Corpus Ong and Joan Donovan, this Special 
Section on True Costs of Misinformation engages the following key 
questions: Who pays for the harms and damage brought by misinformation? 
What are the financial, social, and human costs to society? Whose 
definitions and measures of digital harms matter when coordinating a 
global response? Crucially, what is the future of disinformation 
studies? What concepts and debates should disinformation scholars 
continue to engage with, and what methodologies and advocacy strategies 
need to be discarded?

This Special Section gathers articles written by senior and junior 
scholars who attended an international and interdisciplinary workshop of 
the same name in March 2022. Most of these papers were written during a 
more hopeful and less risky "peak moment" for tech accountability and 
tech justice advocacy especially in the United States. These papers 
collectively offer powerful critiques to the foundational frameworks and 
methodologies in disinformation studies and the tech-first, top-down, 
and U.S.-centric interventions industry.

In this first paper, Alice Marwick and Katherine Furl offer extremism 
and radicalization researchers a framework to study "redpilling" as a 
process as they advocate for long-term, values-based interventions. In 
the second paper, Amogh Dhar Sharma presents a model of deep 
ethnographic investigation that move beyond examining disinformation as 
content to explore how politicians in India misuse state resources and 
funnel "black money" to reward media manipulators who help them stay in 
power. Three papers deal with the important yet overlooked issue of 
audience reception of misinformation and conspiracy theories-across 
diverse contexts of the Asian diaspora in the United States (Rachel Kuo, 
Madhavi Reddi, and Lan Li), audiences in Kenya and Senegal (Dani Madrid 
Morales, Melissa Tully, Kevin C. Mudavadi, Frankline Matanji, and Layire 
Diop), and political fans in the Philippines (Nicole Curato and Sofia 
Tomacruz). Finally, Samantha Bradshaw, Gabrielle Lim, and Monzima Haque 
critique the global diffusion of anti-fake news legislation in a global 
context and how a more inclusive and context-aware approach is less 
vulnerable to authoritarian capture than the mainstream securitization 
frame.

With their critical, contextual, and community-driven approaches mindful 
of global differences and inequalities, these papers prompt powerful 
reflection on what the field in its peak moment got right–and also what 
it got wrong in both its research and activist methodologies.

Link to the latest issue: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc

The True Costs of Misinformation: Introduction byJonathan Corpus Ong, 
Joan Donovan

Mountains of Evidence: Processual "Redpilling" as a Socio-Technical 
Effect of Disinformation by Alice E. Marwick, Katherine Furl

Political Finance and Patronage Behind Disinformation: Evidence From 
India's Election Campaigns by Amogh Dhar Sharma

Transnational Information Networks: Methods for Cross-Diasporic Research 
by Rachel Kuo, Madhavi Reddi, Lan Li

Exploring Audience Agency in Countering Misinformation by Dani 
Madrid-Morales, Melissa Tully, Kevin C. Mudavadi, Frankline Matanji, 
Layire Diop

How Conspiracy Theories Harm Deliberative Democracy by Nicole Curato, 
Sofia Tomacruz

The Global Spread of Misinformation Laws by Samantha Bradshaw, Gabrielle 
Lim, Monzima Haque

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