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The resources listed below will provide you with the opportunity to increase your knowledge and understanding around the different elements of misinformation and offer ways to help combat and counter the spread of misinformation throughout our society.
Click on the drop-downs below to explore different misinformation resources.
Multimedia
Video
- How Does Misinformation spread on Social Media (Australian Institute of Internal Affairs)
- Trust Me (documentary on Kanopy)
- Spotting Misinformation Online (LinkedIn Learning)
- Fighting Misinformation - Digital Media Literacy (The Great Courses on Kanopy)
- Misinformation vs Disinformation: Definition And Examples (Civil Liberties Union for Europe)
- How to understand Misinformation, Disinformation and Malinformation
- How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation - Sinan Aral (15 mins) Ted Talk
Podcast
Interactive
- The great social media quiz (ABC)
- Media Literacy - various interactive resources
- Echo chambers and confirmation bias
Web articles
The following articles are from The Conversation:
Websites
Reports
- Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy-making (Harvard Kennedy School - Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy)
Journals and articles
Journals
Articles
- Bastick, Z. (2021) ‘Would you notice if fake news changed your behavior? An experiment on the unconscious effects of disinformation’, Computers in Human Behavior, 116. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106633.
- Lewandowsky, S. and van der Linden, S. (2021) ‘Countering Misinformation and Fake News Through Inoculation and Prebunking’, European Review of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1080/10463283.2021.1876983
- Zuckermann, E. (2019) ' QAnon and the emergence of the unreal', Journal of Design and Science. doi: 10.21428/7808da6b.6b8a82b9https://doi.org/10.21428/7808da6b.6b8a82b9https://doi.org/10.21428/7808da6b.6b8a82b9
Books
- McBrayer, J. P. (2020) Beyond fake news : finding the truth in a world of misinformation. Routledge
- Campos Domínguez, E, López-García, G, Masip, P, Palau-Sampio, D & Palomo, B 2021, Politics of disinformation : the influence of fake news on the public sphere, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Farmer, L. S. J. (2020) Fake News in Context. Taylor & Francis Group
- Ozolins, J. T. (2021) Education in an age of lies and fake news : regaining a love of truth. Routledge (Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education)
- Bernecker, Sven, Amy K. Flowerree, and Thomas Grundmann. 2021. The Epistemology of Fake News. First edition. Engaging Philosophy. Oxford University Press
- LaGarde, J. author., & Hudgins, D. (2018). Fact vs. fiction : teaching critical thinking skills in the age of fake news (First edition.). International Society for Technology in Education.
More ebooks on misinformation, disinformation & fake news may be found here
Other resources
- DFAT disinformation and misinformation strategy
- Misinformation Lab (School of Psychology, Deakin University)
- Navigating online misinformation and disinformation (La Trobe University)