Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
https://www.torinmonahan.com/
Torin Monahan
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We trace false narratives of refugees as threats to both privileged #Eurowhite populations and vulnerable #Roma people. In both cases, disinformation serves as an extension of larger hybrid and information warfare efforts by Russia.
doi.org/10.5210/fm.v...
the pipeline from a facile understanding of "what if we afford nonhuman actors agency in sociotechnical systems analysis" to "the computer can think and it's my girlfriend" is such a thing to behold
We argue that #disinformation operates by activating existing cultural prejudices, which is a conclusion that complicates debunking or prebunking solutions.
