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ECREA 2022

European Communication Conference (ECREA), 18-24 Oct. 2022

Snurb — Sunday 30 October 2022 02:57

'Fake News' on Facebook: A Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study of Problematic Information Dissemination between 2016 and 2021 (ECREA 2022)

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | ECREA 2022 |

ECREA 2022

'Fake News' on Facebook: A Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study of Problematic Information Dissemination between 2016 and 2021

Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Xue Ying (Jane) Tan, Edward Hurcombe, Nadia Jude, Phoebe Matich, Stephen Harrington, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, and Scott Wright

  • 21 Oct. 2022 – Paper presented at the ECREA 2022 conference, Aarhus

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Snurb — Thursday 27 October 2022 04:31

"Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior": How Meta Shapes the Discussion of Mis/Disinformation on Facebook (ECREA 2022)

‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | ECREA 2022 |
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Snurb — Thursday 27 October 2022 04:23

A Few More Presentations from ECREA 2022

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | ECREA 2022 |

After the excitement of the ECREA 2022 conference proper, my colleagues Sofya Glazunova, Dan Angus and I attended a further post-conference on Digital Media and Information Disorders that was organised by the excellent Anja Bechmann and her team, where we presented a number of papers.

First, Dan presented a paper on behalf of first author Edward Hurcombe on the way that Facebook’s owner Meta shapes the public perception of mis- and disinformation through its statements via the Facebook Newsroom, the platform’s main public relations outlet:

“Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior”: How Meta Shapes the Discussion of Mis/Disinformation on Facebook from Axel Bruns …
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Snurb — Saturday 22 October 2022 22:31

The Discursive Strategies of Far-Right Parties in Spain and Portugal

Politics | Facebook | ECREA 2022 |

The final speaker in this last ECREA 2022 session is Tiago Lapa, whose focus is on the far right in Portugal and Spain. Until a few years ago, these countries had no major far-right parties, but the Catalan independence struggle led to the emergence of Vox as a successful far-right party in Spain in 2017, and Chega followed in Portugal a couple of years later.

Tiago examined the views of these parties as expressed on their Facebook pages from December 2021 (Vox) and September 2022 (Chega). Cheka’s main narratives have a strong anti-establishment tone, attacking the entire political system, conducting …

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Snurb — Saturday 22 October 2022 22:30

The Austrian Identitarians’ Long-Term Effort to Shift Public Discourse

Politics | Journalism | ECREA 2022 |

The next speaker in this ECREA 2022 session is Judith Goetz, whose focus is on the Austrian Identitarian movement. This movement has been an effort to restore far-right language and and ideas into German-language discourse, not least by exploiting certain weaknesses and opportunities in centre-right discourses. This has pushed the boundaries of what can be said with impunity further and further to the right, and has established far-right views in the mainstream media and everyday life.

The Identitarians are a typical example of these developments, and Judith has analysed their discourses by drawing on the material published on their own …

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Snurb — Saturday 22 October 2022 22:29

The Insidious Mechanisms of the Far Right’s Attacks on ‘Wokeness’

Politics | Journalism | ECREA 2022 |

It’s the final session at ECREA 2022 already, and what an excellent conference it’s been – so good to be back away from Zoom and amongst the people. This final session is on the extreme right, and begins with a paper by Bart Cammaerts on the appropriation and normalisation of fascist, extreme-right discourses by more mainstream right-wing politicians. In the process, struggles for social justice are being abnormalised in turn.

Such normalisation involves a demand side and a supply side: on the demand side, the increasing tensions arising from financial globalisation, cultural diversity, democratic deficits, and entrenched inequalities; on the …

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Snurb — Saturday 22 October 2022 20:05

Navigating Impressions and Impact in Journalism and Academia

Politics | Journalism | ECREA 2022 |

The final keynote speaker at ECREA 2022 this week is Gary Younge, a former editor-at-large for The Guardian. He begins by playing a promotional video from his exploration of whiteness in America, from his perspective as a black man from the UK, which intended to flip the script on white journalists’ explorations of black lives in the US or UK. The clip went viral and Gary has kept getting recognised for it, even if the full documentary was perhaps not watched anywhere near as often.

The clip, unfortunately, reduced racism to a spectacle, and after a lifetime of teasing …

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Snurb — Saturday 22 October 2022 18:31

Mapping Alternative News Environments on Diverse Platforms

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ECREA 2022 |

The final speaker in this ECREA 2022 session is presented by Eva Mayerhöffer and Jakob Bæk Kristensen, who start from the same interest in alternative media and digital counterpublics, understanding the latter especially as the digital environments that are established by the sharing of alternative media content and exploring their inward or outward orientation.

Alternative news environments, then, are constituted by those actors who have shared the same alternative URLs either directly or by on-sharing other actors’ shares. The project worked with a sample of some 160 left-wing, right-wing, and ideologically different alternative news media across Germany, Austria, Sweden, and …

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Snurb — Saturday 22 October 2022 18:28

Norwegian Journalists’ Attitudes towards Alternative News Media

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | ECREA 2022 |

The next speaker in this ECREA 2022 session is Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, focussing on the relations between professional alternative media as an indication of boundaries in the journalistic field. This connects with a long history of research into field theory and boundary work in journalism.

The present study thus understands journalism as a strategic action field – but even if boundaries are now blurry, they still exist: the actors in governance units (press, industry associations, union, funders) and incumbents (editorial-driven, legacy news media) intersect with each other and together form the field of journalism and produce a collective frame of …

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Snurb — Saturday 22 October 2022 18:25

Mapping Far-Right Networks in Germany across Platforms

Politics | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | ECREA 2022 |

The next paper in this ECREA 2022 session is Azade Kakavand, whose study compares far-right networks across multiple platforms. Far-right here means a broad grouping that also includes the radical and extreme right, as well as both electoral and non-electoral groups. The networks between these actors may be affected by the different affordances that the various social media platforms offer.

The literature so far tells us that Facebook appears to be used especially for international connections between different political actors, and for sharing mainstream and alternative news; on Twitter there are denser networks within countries or language spaces, which are …

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