Cabañes, Jason Vincent. 2022. The imaginative dimension of digital disinformation: Fake news, political trolling, and the entwined crises of Covid-19 and inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(3-4), pp. 428-444. ISSN 1367-8779 [Article]

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This article uses the concept of the ‘imaginative dimension of digital disinformation’ to explore how inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city matters to the way people engage with racially tinged Covid-19 digital disinformation. It pays attention to two key socialities that fake news and political trolling online seek to weaponise people’s existing social narratives as well as their relationally embedded practices of media consumption. Drawing on 15 life story interviews with locals from the Philippines capital of Manila, this article characterises their interpretations of online dis- information campaigns that aim to amplify their shared social narrative of resentment towards China and bank on their communicative practices surrounding this. It also aims to show the value of empirical research that possesses a transnational sensibility in assessing the interpretive and social dynamics surrounding such racist Covid-19 digital disinformation.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779211068533
Additional Information:	Funding: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Democracy and Disinformation Consortium and the United Nations Development Programme (Project No. 400-160) and by the Manuscript Writing Program of the De La Salle University Research Coordinating Office (Project No. 45 A 3TAY20-1TAY21).
Keywords:	Covid-19 pandemic, fake news, inter-Asian racism, political trolling, social media, social narratives
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 20 December 2021 Accepted 16 February 2022 Published Online July 2022 Published
Item ID:	36593
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2024 08:36
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2024 15:47
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36593

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