the age of (dis)information
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@lageneralistaAlicia Wanless
Changing Content
How we Participate
Deliberate Misinformation
The Age of (Dis)Information
What is (Dis)information? A Play on Words
Truth
Information
Lies
All About Me
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Images can be deceiving
Didn't Recall 32%
Remembered 37%
Saw on TV 31%
The Medium is the Misinformation
At hat tip to McLuhan
Media = Means of Mass Communications
Traditional Media
Participatory Media
The Business of Catching Attention
How Content is Changing
–Johnny Appleseed
“Type a quote here.”
Content Comes From Everywhere
Rank Website
1 Facebook.com
2 Youtube.com
3 & 5 Google.com & Google.ge
4 ok.ru
6 mail.ru
7 Myvideo.ge
8 Amazon.com
9 Myauto.ge
10 Ambebi.ge
AJ+ Top 10 Video Publisher
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2nd most shared article
of 2014
1.2 million shares
Most Shared BBC
We are all Media nowOur integration into media and its messaging.
You’ve Got a Friend in News?
64% of Americans on
1/3 of U.S. get news
there
PewResearch
BBC
308 Nodes • 1209 Edges
1795 Nodes • 13876 Edges
BuzzFeed
308 Nodes • 1209 Edges
AJ+
705 Nodes • 22952 Edges
RT
1030 Nodes • 5249 Edges
FOX NEWS
0
3000000
6000000
9000000
12000000
BBC BuzzFeed RT Fox
Pages Likes Talking About the Page
Facebook Page Likes
We are Participating
339K Facebook Shares
33K Facebook Shares
9%6%
85%
Political Agenda Trolls & Spam Undetermined
Top Posters on RT Facebook
Everybody is Astrotrufing
Deliberate DisinformationVarying Degrees of Misinformation
MEDIAMedia: An “Information
Laundering” Machine
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Social Media Blogs Traditional Media
Other Traditional Media
Other Traditional Media
Other Traditional Media
Other Traditional Media
Feeding information up the media chain
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64
Establishment Fibs & Fears
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
72% Supported Iraq War
42% Still Believe WMDs
Wishful Thinking & Propaganda
Feeding the Media Chain
FearWishful
Thinking
What is to be Done?Measures for Diminishing Disinformation’s Effects
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Know Your Audience
Provide Alternatives
Avoid Denigrating Egos
Investigate
Expose Yourself
We are all responsible.
AALa GeneralistaPRESENTATIONLa GeneralistaPRESENTATION
Study influence and propaganda in a digital age, applying my research to strategic communications campaigns.
Alicia Wanless@lageneralista