As we look around today, we have plenty of examples of both mis and disinformation. Social media, reddit threads, and online groups are taking it upon themselves to call out the misrepresentations replete across our feeds. Making our way through the Module readings, I am also reading "Storytelling and/as Misinformation". (You can find the article via the U Alberta library: 1. McDowell K, Sanfilippo MR, Ocepek MG. Storytelling and/as Misinformation: Storytelling Dynamics and Narrative Structures for Three Cases of COVID-19 Viral Misinformation. In: Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons. Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons. Cambridge University Press; 2025:18-40.). Understanding misinformation and disinformation requires attending to narrative structures and relationships. In the storytelling triangle, the audience's relationship to the teller hinges in part on how they understand the teller's own relationship to the story as well as which...
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