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Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons

Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons

Author: Madelyn R. Sanfilippo; Melissa G. Ocepek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009255158
Published In: March 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons delves into the complex issue of misinformation in our daily lives. The book synthesizes three scholarly traditions - everyday life, misinformation, and governing knowledge commons - to present 10 case studies of online and offline communities tackling diverse dilemmas regarding truth and information quality. The book highlights how communities manage issues of credibility, trust, and information quality continuously, to mitigate the impact of misinformation when possible. It also explores how social norms and intentional governance evolve to distinguish between problematic disinformation and little white lies. Through a coproduction of governance and (mis-)information, the book raises a set of ethical, economic, political, social, and technological questions that require systematic study and careful deliberation.

1. Introduction: governing everyday misinformation

Melissa G. Ocepek and Madelyn R. Sanfilippo

2. Storytelling and/as Misinformation: storytelling dynamics and narrative structures for three cases of COVID-19 viral misinformation

Kate McDowell

3. It's not (all) about the information: the role of cognition in creating and sustaining false beliefs

Dominique Kelly and Jacquelyn Burkell

4. Information Hazing: An Examination through Computer Science Education

Elizabeth Wickes and Melissa G. Ocepek

5. Common nonsense about password security and the expert-layperson knowledge gap

Brett Frischmann and Alexandria Johnson

6. Hacks, Fakes, and Hot Takes: Moderating 'bad actors' on Google Maps Local Guides Platform

Rebecca Noone and Aparajita Bhandari