MAP-MISINFO

Considering Rurality and Religion: Mapping an Alternative Media Ecosystem and Addressing Gaps in Misinformation Research

Grant period2024-06-01 - 2026-05-31
Funding bodyEuropean Union
Call numberHORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01
Grant number101109725
IdentifierG:(EU-Grant)101109725

Note: MAP-MISINFO is a proposal for a two-year European MSCA Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), within the Department of Communication (COMM). It proposes examining the intersection of misinformation, as a growing threat to democracy, and media research practices aimed at understanding information dissemination. As media research approaches are a key way to understand and potentially address misinformation, it is vital that media scholarship better account for gaps in practice—for example, around under-researched contexts such as rurality and radio. Another prevalent but understudied gap is how qualitative inquiry can be used to in conjunction with common practices in ‘counting or categorizing’ instances of misinformation online; such approaches better consider the manifold ways societies navigate between facts and fabrications—what sociotechnical systems and contexts might allow misinformation to thrive or be combatted. The MAP-MISINFO project will work towards filling both types of gaps through a two-pronged, interrelated research design. First, the project will engage in an empirical case study, mapping a misinformation-related topic as it moves through the open web and region-specific media ecosystems. The region of focus will be the rural, conservative, relatively homogeneous US state of Utah. This case study will serve to inform (and be informed by) the other prong of MAP-MISINFO: a mapping and analysis of common media research tools used in examining misinformation. This second objective of the project entails carefully curated workshops of media scholars and publication overviews. The project will generate a public-facing website, media appearances, peer-reviewed publications, a report for general distribution, and a special issue of a top Communications journal. The host institution, UCPH, is uniquely positioned to provide methodological and theoretical guidance. MAP-MISINFO will also contribute to establishing my international academic career.
   

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