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FREE webinar! Disinformation Studies without the Determinism: Work cultures and manipulation strategies of Filipino troll armies

The University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies (UPSLIS) will be hosting a free event on July 6, 2022 (Wednesday), 9:00 AM with the theme "Disinformation Studies without the Determinism: Work cultures and manipulation strategies of Filipino troll armies." The webinar will be streamed live on the UPSLIS Facebook page.

About the speaker

Prof. Jonathan Corpus Ong is Associate Professor of Global Digital Media at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center. He is author of two books and over 25 journal articles in the areas of media ethics, digital politics, and the anthropology of humanitarianism. He is an engaged scholar with a long record of collaborating with human rights and humanitarian organizations, election integrity groups, and investigative journalists. Recently, he was named as one of 28 Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2022, representing the discipline of communication studies. His podcast Catch Me If You Can, an election integrity intervention funded by Internews, is in the Top 20 of the Philippines podcast charts.

About the talk

This talk argues against determinist perspectives that scapegoat social media as a technological brainwasher and advances a social analysis of disinformation cultures in both sides of its production and consumption. Based on long-term analysis of disinformation architectures (Ong & Cabanes 2018), and engaged public scholarship that invites listeners to listen in to his interviews with online trolls (Catch Me If You Can, 2022), Ong invites library and information science scholars to consider their position in a "whole-of-society approach” (Donovan 2022) to fighting disinformation.

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