Cabañes, Jason Vincent. 2020. Digital disinformation and the imaginative dimension of communication. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 97(2), pp. 435-452. ISSN 1077-6990 [Article]

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To nuance current understandings of the proliferation of digital disinformation, this article seeks to develop an approach that emphasizes the imaginative dimension of this communication phenomenon. Anchored on ideas about the sociality of communication, this piece conceptualizes how fake news and political trolling online work in relation to particular shared understandings people have of their sociopolitical landscape. It offers the possibility of expanding the information-oriented approach to communication taken by many journalistic interventions against digital disinformation. It particularly opens up alternatives to the problematic strategy of challenging social media manipulation solely by doubling down on objectivity and facts.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020913799
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 is part of the Democracy and Disinformation Studies Project lodged under De La Salle University—Manila and managed by the Democracy and Disinformation Consortium (Project No. 400-160). It is also supported by the Manuscript-writing Program of the University Research Coordination Office of De La Salle University—Manila.
Keywords:	digital disinformation, fake news, political trolling, social narratives, audiences
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 16 April 2020 Accepted 17 April 2020 Published Online June 2020 Published
Item ID:	36842
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2024 10:52
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2024 13:21
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36842

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