This event, opened by STG Executive Director Fabrizio Tassinari, features a book presentation and discussion with the editors and a number of authors of the edited volume.
Monday 9 March, 11:00-13:00 CET
Introduction
Fabrizio Tassinari, STG Executive Director
Presentation by the editors
Lisa Ginsborg, STG Research Fellow
Paula Gori, STG Programme Coordinator
Presentation by selected authors
Matteo Giglioli, NYU Florence
Alina Bârgăoanu, National University for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest
Giovanni Zagni, Pagella Politica
Authored by a diverse group of scholars and experts, the book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of disinformation and strategies for tackling it. The part of the volume delves into disinformation from various disciplinary perspectives including philosophy, social psychology, economics, international law, data science, anthropology, political science and history. By examining the underlying factors behind disinformation and analysing its impact on democratic processes, this section sheds light on its complexities, and reminds us that different policy responses are always grounded in different explanatory angles of the phenomenon. The second section focuses on the information ecosystem, investigating the processes, technologies, and actors involved in the spread of disinformation. By examining real-world examples and the roles played by different actors and technologies, this sheds light on the intricate workings of disinformation in different thematic and regional contexts. The book culminates in the third section, which focuses on crafting effective responses to disinformation. Chapters in this section explore policy efforts aimed at ensuring information integrity across the world, and highlight the importance of fundamental rights and evidence-based policy responses, encompassing self and co-regulation, quality journalism, fact-checking organisations and the pivotal role media literacy initiatives.
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