When Falsehood Wins? Varied Effects Of Sensational Elements On Users’ Engagement With Real And Fake Posts
The study compared between fake and real microblogs, specifically those related to COVID 19. And interesting finding was that fake news utilized anger and disgust to gain attention, they also used more…
Old and New Actors and Phenomena in the Three-M Processes of Life and Society: Medicalization, Moralization and Misinformation
A book that brings together a number of articles related to medicalization, taking the reader on journey regarding the development of information about certain topics as well as misinformation or so called…
Misinformation In the Media: Global Coverage of GMOs 2019-2021
A study on GMO misinformation in the media. The results show that the misinformation problem regarding the research topic supersedes that of other highly debatable subjects such as COVID, climate change and…
Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing
An interesting article that discusses the spread of misinformation, the reasons behind it, its impact, costs and suggests strategies to tackle it.
COVID-19 in the Time of Climate Change: Memetic Discourses on Social Media
A study that analyzes the discourse on Facebook and Instagram regarding Covid and climate change and their interconnectedness. Among the findings is that individuals who believe that climate change is fake are…
Social Media Law and Ethics
A book refered to as excellent for communication and journalism students, as it cover a good number of important legal topics, such as copyright law, data privacy, revenge porn, defamation, government censorship,…
Organic farming: Does it contribute to contaminant-free produce and ensure food safety?
An interesting article on the misconceptions of the benefits of organic farming on the ecosystem, especially in terms of organic waste management.
ICTs to address information inefficiencies in food supply chains
A study that explores how ICT can help in addressing lack of information among poor small holder farmers, it also discussess possible dangers that ICT can create when context is not taken…
Climate, Chaos and Collective Behaviour : A Rising Fickleness
The book is comprised of 11 chapters with each one presenting a specific case study, where the principles of chaos theory are linked to social science. It focuses on two disciplines, mass…
Social media? It’s serious! Understanding the dark side of social media
A very interesting paper on the drakside of social media, which can be unquantifiable and often unretrievable and nonforgiving in nature. The paper studies the important forces at play, using the social…
