Listening to lies and legitimacy online: A proposal for digital rhetorical listening

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Corinne Jones
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Rhetorical Listening ◽  
Online Spaces

As people scream past each other in an increasingly polarized public sphere, fake news emerges as problem for reception on the Internet. While scholars have posited rhetorical listening as a strategy to bridge these differences in off-line spaces, it has not been fully explored online. Online spaces are becoming increasingly salient and important to theorize though, since polarized groups often communicate and miscommunicate on the Internet. Using the fake news that circulated in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida as a case study, I demonstrate some of the complications for rhetorical listening that arise through algorithms, interfaces, and performances that perpetuate the spread of fake news. As such, I call for more robust digital listening practices and theories that account for complications of the Internet. I conclude that individuals, platforms, and institutions can all actively promote rhetorical digital listening practices. However, we also need to think about other motivations besides ignorance for spreading fake news.

scholarly journals Blogging as Popular History Making, Blogs as Public History: The Singapore Case Study

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Ho
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Public History ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Blogging is a twenty-first century phenomenon that has heralded an age where ordinary people can make their voices heard in the public sphere of the Internet. This article explores blogging as a form of popular history making; the blog as a public history document; and how blogging is transforming the nature of public history and practice of history making in Singapore. An analysis of two Singapore ‘historical’ blogs illustrates how blogging is building a foundation for a more participatory historical society in the island nation. At the same time, the case studies also demonstrate the limitations of blogging and blogs in challenging official versions of history.

The Internet and Epistemic Agency

2021 ◽  
pp. 389-409
Author(s):  
Hanna Gunn ◽  
Michael Patrick Lynch
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Epistemic Agency ◽  
Epistemic Virtues ◽  
Echo Chambers ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Lead Users ◽  
Filter Bubbles

In this chapter, Hanna Gunn and Michael Patrick Lynch examine the connection between epistemic agency and the internet. They identify two conditions that are true of responsible epistemic agency: first, responsible epistemic agents aim to develop epistemic virtues, merit, and capacities that help them to responsibly change their epistemic environment, as well as the capacities that enable them to recognize and respect these epistemic traits in others. Second, responsible epistemic agents treat other epistemic agents with a form of respect that demonstrates a willingness to learn from them. Gunn and Lynch then show that the ways in which the internet makes information more widely available can also undermine our ability to be responsible epistemic agents. For instance, the personalization of online spaces can unwittingly lead users into echo chambers and filter-bubbles and away from a diverse range of perspectives, and fake news and information pollution can make for a hostile online epistemic environment.

scholarly journals Islam Dot Com

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-106
Author(s):  
Eugenia Siapera
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Independent Thinking ◽  
Dot Com

The articulation of Islam with the new media, and the Internet in particular,has attracted the interest of many researchers. The Internet’s openness anddemocratic potential may infuse Islamic discourses with a new dynamic or,alternatively, offer a new lease of life to such valued traditions as shura (consultation)and ijtihad (independent thinking). Islam Dot Com belongs to theline of thought that seeks to discover how the Internet has been associatedwith Islam and the extent to which it may be thought to contribute to itsdemocratization by providing a truly public sphere in which interested peoplecan participate. On the other hand, the authors are cognizant of the limitationsof the concept of “public sphere” when applied to Islamic contexts.Part of the book’s remit, therefore, is to examine how the Internet relates to shura, ijtihad, and ijma` (consensus). At the same time, it seeks to relatethese theoretical arguments to an empirical case study consisting of a textualanalysis of three Islamic websites: www.islamonline.net, www.amrkhaled.net, and www.islamway.com. The book’s structure comprises threetheoretical chapters (chapters 1-3), two empirical chapters (chapters 4 and5), and a concluding chapter (chapter 6) ...

scholarly journals Fake news and real news: What are their characteristics and how to identify them in a school and in COVID-19 pandemic context? A proposal for scientific literacy adapted to emergency remote education

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. e310101321442
Author(s):  
Renato Corrêia Lima ◽  
Adriana Oliveira Freitas ◽  
Jacqueline da Silva Batista ◽  
Vinícius Rocha da Silva
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
School Students ◽  
Remote Education ◽  
The World

This case study aimed to apply, adapt and then evaluate a didactic approach to combat fake news, through scientific literacy in the context of emergency remote education (ERE) with a focus on COVID-19. For this, virtual workshops were held in 2020 with high school students from two public schools in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. All the ethical guidelines of Resolution CNS 510/2016 were followed. In the workshops, the students were exposed to the situation-problem of differentiating fake news from reliable news by identifying typical characteristics of either type of information. There were 18 characteristics for fake news and 18 characteristics for reliable news, of which 50% and 83.3% are unpublished, respectively. In addition, four fake news features and four reliable news features were observed by the students exclusively related to COVID-19. Thus, the adaptation to ERE that is proposed in the present study proved effective and could subsidize any work that aims to prepare students to better understand what is true and what is untrue in the world of the Internet, especially regards to in social media.

scholarly journals THE INTERNET IS TRASH: MAKING SENSE OF TOXIC NETWORKS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber M. Buck ◽  
Cindy Tekobbe ◽  
Dustin Edwards ◽  
Estee Beck
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Internet Culture ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Online Spaces

This panel brings together scholars studying distinct aspects of internet culture in order to make sense of the negative byproducts of online spaces. Each presenter takes on a different topic: political internet memes, fan subcultures, conscious disconnection from internet platforms, and physical digital waste to consider the consequences of internet life. Using distinct methodologies: case study interviews, ethnography, textual studies and histories, and autoethnography, this panel considers what internet scholars can learn from the unsavory parts of the internet. Working with notions of internet waste, these presentations serve to build out a broad set of perspectives about the potential value in the trash internet, what we can learn from it, and how we can think more deeply about that which has little value or consideration in the internet life of clicks, posts, shares, likes, and follows. Through these presentations, the speakers ask the audience to consider their own views of internet garbage and to think about remedies to the toxic ecologies that impact life - both virtual and literal.

scholarly journals AUTHENTIFICATION AT THE EDGE: #”GAMERGATE”-ING THE ASCENT OF THE VERIFIED INTERNET

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelanthi Hewa ◽  
Christine H. Tran
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News

While platforms may be hard to know, they are increasingly invested in knowing—and policing— users. From “verified accounts” to “two-factor authentication,” platform affordances have proffered metrics of “authenticity” as an antidote to the uncertainties of attention economies, which are ostensibly saturated by fake news, misinformation, and algorithmic radicalization (Haimson & Hoffman, 2016; Caplan, 2020). Yet the platformization of realness claims are often weaponized against the most marginalized, as evidenced by recent events like PornHub’s demonetisation of unverified accounts. Early hashtag harassment events like #GamerGate foreshadowed the gendered consequences of digital realness regimes. In the ascent of “verified account” castes and other digital authenticators, the traditional “black box” conceptualization of platforms rings increasingly untrue. Rather, we argue, the algorithmic reality for marginalized users better resembles Wile E. Coyote’s painted tunnels on the side of mountains: vortexes of selective porosity that invite some roadrunners and flatten others. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis of #GamerGate coverage from 2014 and 2015, we attend to how ideologies of “realness” reproduce along gendered and racialized lines. Our paper builds on recent work on how the ideation of “realness” embeds forms of communicative and audience-managing labour among networked creators (Abidin 2016; Banet-Weiser, 2012; Duffy, 2017). The ascent of “authentification-as-safety is historicized within the hashtag harassment event “GamerGate,” our case study and pivotal moment in the platform veracity ecosystem when influencers and journalists were exhorted to authenticate their lives or lose their livelihoods. Everyone on the internet knows you’re a dog. Now what?

Cultural Matrix of the Online Hindutva Discourse in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Avishek Ray
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
The One

The promise of ‘Digital India’ has, on the one hand, supplied a new vocabulary of political participation, and, on the other hand, consolidated techniques of statist control. Taking off from here, this article examines the constituency of the Hindutva discourse online, and how the performativity of Hindutva reconfigures the digital public sphere. It seeks to understand: How do the ideologues of Hindutva territorialize certain online spaces? How does the Internet equip them with new imaginations and vocabulary of political partisanship? How does this provoke the political Other—the counterpublics—against which their identity is recast and amplified? These three questions constitute the central problematic of the article.

Fake News Related to the Coronavirus. Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (34) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Urbanek
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Media

The aim of the article is to analyze fake news related to coronavirus and assign selected examples to the categories of fake news presented in the literature. Various types of fake news disseminated in the Internet in Polish language were analyzed. The study is preceded by a discussion on the origin, specificity, types, and available classifications of fake news obtained from the available literature. On the basis of the analysis, it can be concluded that many fake news items appeared in the media discussion on the threat of coronavirus, differing in terms of sources, form, and content. Their diversity is reflected in the numerousness of fake news categories, distinguished by the creators of the classifications of this phenomenon.

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