AoIR Panel on Gender & Misinformation
Hello all! I am putting together a panel on gender & misinformation for AoIR 2023 with a couple of colleagues. We are looking for one or two additional papers that examine online misinformation, disinformation, and/ or conspiracy theories through the lens of gender and/or gender studies (what are we missing when we don't discuss gender as a significant category in mis- and disinfo studies?), gendered case studies (intersectional approaches to online misogyny, harassment of women, etc.), and/ or instances in which women and femmes have either freely spread or pushed back against gendered misinformation. We are particularly interested in papers that examine these topics in majority world contexts. If interested, please shoot me an email with a 1 - 2 sentence description of your paper. Warmly, Yvonne -- Yvonne M. Eadon, MLIS, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life <http://citap.unc.edu/> University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill She/ her website <http://yvonneeadon.com> | twitter <https://twitter.com/yvonnemelisande>
Dear Yvonne, Many thanks for your message. I would be very interested in contributing to this panel. My paper topic concerns platform governance and the effects of gendered misinformation and hate speech on elected politicians. In particular, my paper focuses on the women elected leaders of the parliament in Germany, the first country to pass platform governance laws. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to answer them. -Sheila On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 11:30 AM Yvonne Eadon via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Hello all!
I am putting together a panel on gender & misinformation for AoIR 2023 with a couple of colleagues. We are looking for one or two additional papers that examine online misinformation, disinformation, and/ or conspiracy theories through the lens of gender and/or gender studies (what are we missing when we don't discuss gender as a significant category in mis- and disinfo studies?), gendered case studies (intersectional approaches to online misogyny, harassment of women, etc.), and/ or instances in which women and femmes have either freely spread or pushed back against gendered misinformation. We are particularly interested in papers that examine these topics in majority world contexts.
If interested, please shoot me an email with a 1 - 2 sentence description of your paper.
Warmly,
Yvonne
-- Yvonne M. Eadon, MLIS, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life <http://citap.unc.edu/
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill She/ her website <http://yvonneeadon.com> | twitter <https://twitter.com/yvonnemelisande> _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Dear Yvonne, Thank you for this interesting proposal. I am very keen on the topic you have suggested. I am currently working on a case study concerning the return to Italy of Silvia Romano (who had been kidnapped in 2018 by the Islamic group Al Shabaab in Kenya, where she was working as a volunteer in a rural village) who was the target of multiple forms of incivility on Twitter and Facebook. The uncivil attacks have been of different types, but mainly linked to the use of information distortions. Silvia Romano has become a target of hatred on three main levels: as a woman, as a Muslim and as an agency volunteer. The case is interesting because it highlights a reconfiguration of Islamophobia associated with specific forms of misogyny (stigmatisation of the woman/victim) and criminalisation of humanitarian activity (this is why we can talk about 'intersectional incivility'). Let me know what you think about this case, in any case I will be happy to answer if you have further questions. best wishes Rossella Il giorno ven 17 feb 2023 alle ore 19:06 Sheila Babulal Lalwani via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> ha scritto:
Dear Yvonne,
Many thanks for your message. I would be very interested in contributing to this panel. My paper topic concerns platform governance and the effects of gendered misinformation and hate speech on elected politicians. In particular, my paper focuses on the women elected leaders of the parliament in Germany, the first country to pass platform governance laws.
Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to answer them.
-Sheila
On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 11:30 AM Yvonne Eadon via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Hello all!
I am putting together a panel on gender & misinformation for AoIR 2023 with a couple of colleagues. We are looking for one or two additional papers that examine online misinformation, disinformation, and/ or conspiracy theories through the lens of gender and/or gender studies (what are we missing when we don't discuss gender as a significant category in mis- and disinfo studies?), gendered case studies (intersectional approaches to online misogyny, harassment of women, etc.), and/ or instances in which women and femmes have either freely spread or pushed back against gendered misinformation. We are particularly interested in papers that examine these topics in majority world contexts.
If interested, please shoot me an email with a 1 - 2 sentence description of your paper.
Warmly,
Yvonne
-- Yvonne M. Eadon, MLIS, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life < http://citap.unc.edu/
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill She/ her website <http://yvonneeadon.com> | twitter <https://twitter.com/yvonnemelisande> _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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participants (3)
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Rossella Rega -
Sheila Babulal Lalwani -
Yvonne Eadon