What is it about?
This study investigates the network of Facebook Groups, Youtube channels, and websites that mobilized the French Schools boycott movement through disinformation, especially through "rumor bombs". It quantifies the posts that garnered the most attention (likes, shares, comments), and uses a variety of methods (e.g. critical discourse analysis) and theories (e.g. affect and post-truth) to analyze why these posts appeared to be effective attention-getters and probably mobilizers.
Featured Image
Photo by Tanushree Rao on Unsplash
Why is it important?
The article helps us better empirically understand what disinformation is effective, and what worked or was useless in combatting it.
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Tactical Connecting and (Im-)Mobilizing in the French Boycott School Day Campaign and Anti-Gender Theory Movement, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-63982-6_10.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
