Context Yesterday (26/02), various news reports about a Willy Wonka-inspired experience in Glasgow started to circulate on social media. The articles, from outlets such as BBC News, Glasgow Live, and STV News, refer to ‘furious’ families who attended the underwhelming event. This included reports of the police being called as visitors deemed the event a …
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On Friday 5th January, media researcher and sociologist Joan Donovan wrote a piece for The Conversation about ‘networked incitement’. The concept, taken from a working paper by Donovan, Kaylee Fagan, and Frances Lee, is described as: a socio-technical infrastructure where insurgents use multi-platform communication to command and control mobilized social movements in the moment of …
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Intentionally false news stories were shared more than 35m times during the 2016 US presidential election, with Facebook playing a significant role in their spread. Shortly after, the Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed that 50m Facebook profiles had been harvested without authorisation and used to target political ads and fake news for the election and later …
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