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It's going to be a great event. I'm super excited to be leading a session based on my current work on disinformation with (Mis)Translating Deceit (AHRC-funded project)

Everytime I get into doing a narrative analysis of material on Twitter I'm astonished by 1) just how complicated and messy narrative production really is in this environment and 2) how extraordinary it is that most users have no difficulty at all in immediately making sense of it

🚨 New blog post! Check out Alex Chumakov's blog that explores how divisions shape the wider Russian opposition by examining the narratives of those who remain in the country and those in exile. buff.ly/NYlExZI

This Friday, March 7th Stephen Hutchings will be in at Central European University in Vienna speaking at the OHPA Hub for the Politics of the Anthropocene workshop on Climate Disinformation: European and Global Perspectives. It will be a hybrid session. You can reigster your attendance here - buff.ly/fd3gxly

My latest for The Moscow Times: What makes news feel relevant — and why it’s a challenge for Russian independent media.

Congratulations to Maksim Markelov for the publication of his fantastic article, "Amplifying doubt: How Russian trolls leveraged pandemic uncertainty for strategic gain" with Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ! You can read it here - doi.org/10.1080/009634…

Our article ‘Disinformation as process: modeling the lifecycle of deceit’ is now out with Communication Theory. It offers a new conceptual model of disinformation and its discourses. Do check it out! academic.oup.com/ct/advance-art…

We are delighted to share that Sabina Mihelj & Vaclav Stetka 🇺🇦's joint monograph, "The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies" received the Best Book award from the APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions Info Tech and Politics section! You can read it via Open Access here -link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

🚨New blog post! Emma Connolly (Research Fellow at UCL's Digital Speech Lab) explores why tracking mis and disnformation is challenging as it moves across platforms, and why it is vital its circulation is mitigated. You can read her blog on our website - mis-translating-deceit.com/project-blog/w…

Fantastic piece on Russian AI by our project members Maxim Alyukov and Alexandr Voronovici!