The imaginative dimension of digital disinformation: Fake news, political trolling, and the entwined crises of Covid-19 and inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city.

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.1177/13678779211068533

Jason Vincent A Cabañes

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This article uses the concept of the 'imaginative dimension of digital disinformation' to explore how inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city matters to the way people engage with racially tinged Covid-19 digital disinformation. It pays attention to two key socialities that fake news and political trolling online seek to weaponise: people's existing social narratives as well as their relationally embedded practices of media consumption. Drawing on 15 life story interviews with locals from the Philippines capital of Manila, this article characterises their interpretations of online disinformation campaigns that aim to amplify their shared social narrative of resentment towards China and bank on their communicative practices surrounding this. It also aims to show the value of empirical research that possesses a transnational sensibility in assessing the interpretive and social dynamics surrounding such racist Covid-19 digital disinformation.

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数字虚假信息的想象力：假新闻、政治炒作，以及后殖民城市中新冠肺炎和跨亚洲种族主义交织的危机。

本文利用“数字虚假信息的想象力维度”的概念，探讨后殖民城市的跨亚洲种族主义如何影响人们参与带有种族色彩的新冠肺炎数字虚假信息。它关注两个关键的社会问题，假新闻和网络政治巨魔试图将其武器化：人们现有的社会叙事以及他们相对嵌入的媒体消费实践。本文通过对菲律宾首都马尼拉当地人的15次生活故事采访，描述了他们对网络虚假信息运动的解读，这些虚假信息运动旨在扩大他们对中国不满的共同社会叙事，并利用他们围绕这一点的沟通实践。它还旨在展示具有跨国敏感性的实证研究在评估围绕这种种族主义新冠肺炎数字虚假信息的解释和社会动态方面的价值。

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.