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Nadia Jude
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Thinking critically about data infrastructures, digital platform content moderation and global security governance. She/her.
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We stress the importance of critically interrogating the design of content moderation systems, the problems they are oriented to solve, their contexts of use, and their risk of directly supporting and entrenching online harms.
X, YouTube, and now Meta are taking advantage of these successes, taking elements, then co-opting the language of ‘empowerment’ and ‘democracy’ to reduce moderation and market their techno-solutionist products as beneficial for the world. Research like ours is a useful reminder of the importance of critically interrogating platform content moderation systems, which involves paying attention to these systems’ design, the problems they are oriented to solve, their contexts of use, and their risk of directly supporting and entrenching online harms. There is an urgent need to think beyond technology to address the societal challenges often associated with the disinformation problem despite large tech companies' efforts to convince us otherwise. Media system reform, market-shaping approaches, and “big tent” civil society coalitions led by the Global Majority would be a fruitful start.
February 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Thank you Tom ☺️ We felt our research really spoke to the global tech justice piece you wrote with @joncong.bsky.social on the impact of Meta's decisions for marginalised communities + regions grappling with deep-seated conflicts. CN is not designed to address harm + its ethos will likely sow harm.
February 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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No problem at all, Nicole! It’s what this place is for ☺️ I hope you find them useful!
November 20, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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November 19, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics | HKS Misinformation Review
This essay advocates a critical approach to disinformation research that is grounded in history, culture, and politics, and centers questions of power and inequality. In the United States, identity, p...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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Fake News is Not a Virus: On Platforms and Their Effects
Abstract. This article attempts to uncover the intellectual, economic, and methodological structures that have led to the recent emergence of a particular
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November 19, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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Disinformation and the structural transformations of the public arena: addressing the actual challenges to democracy - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive
Current debate is dominated by fears of the threats of digital technology for democracy. One typical example is the perceived threats of malicious actors promoting disinformation through digital channels to sow confusion and exacerbate political divisions. The prominence of the threat of digital
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November 19, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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Hi Nicole, I'm writing my PhD on shifting conceptions of disinformation within Australian policy discourses. I'll link to some readings I've found particularly useful below (have many more, if this is the kind of work you're looking for) ☺️
November 19, 2024 at 2:55 AM