3-year AHRC-funded project ‘(Mis)Translating Deceit: Disinformation as a Translingual, Discursive Dynamic’. PI @StephenHutchin6 Lead Co-I Vera Tolz @OfficialUoM
Manchester, England
Joined July 2023
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🚨New analytical report by our project team
In this report, we assess the extent, purpose, and impact of online Russia-sponsored news proxies in the context of the EU2024 elections
Available at our website
mis-translating-deceit.com/p…
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🚨Congratulations to @StephenHutchin6 on his new article in @IJoC_USC! It examines how climate denialism intersects with counter-disinformation frameworks, challenging simplistic distinctions between facts, truth and political contestation. Read it here: doi.org/10.65476/gq3wv186.
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📖 For the full article see: doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.202…
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➡️This suggests that generational differences go beyond susceptibility or media literacy, reflecting different approaches to argumentation and interpretation. The article finally discusses implications for the wider research field and counter-disinformation practices.
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➡️ Three types of interpretive arguments are identified: textual cues, prior knowledge and broader narratives. Younger participants rely on text-based scrutiny. Older ones draw on personal experience and moral and political narratives. Middle-aged groups sit in between.
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➡️The study draws on 18 focus groups held in April-May 2025 in three European countries - Serbia🇷🇸, Poland🇵🇱, and Romania🇷🇴 - and analyses discussions prompted by four disinformation examples per country, two on the war in Ukraine and two on LGBTQ issues.
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➡️ This article develops a more elaborated conceptualisation of generational differences and proposes to understand disinformation not as a set of factual errors to be corrected but as a communicative practice that involves interpretation and interaction.
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➡️ Generational differences in responses to disinformation attract much attention yet are often discussed from the view of ‘vulnerability’ or ‘resilience’. This offers limited insight into how audiences interpret and negotiate contested claims in everyday communication.
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📢 Project publication alert!
🌍 In a new article published in Information, Communication & Society journal, @advokatjanjic, @SMihelj, and Hanna Orsolya Vincze examine generational differences in responses to disinformation.
🔗 4/4 Explore the journal and submission information:
Disinformation: An Interdisciplinary Journal - @SageJournals
Link: journals.sagepub.com/home/DI…
📣 We also invite colleagues and researchers to help spread the word about this new open-access venue.
🌍 3/4 The journal is now live and accepting submissions with no APCs. Researchers working on disinformation, misinformation, propaganda, political communication, media, digital cultures and other related areas are encouraged to consider the journal as a venue for their work.
2/4 The journal welcomes innovative research that examines how disinformation is produced, circulated, interpreted and contested across media, societies and political contexts. Engagements with emerging forms of disinformation and interdisciplinary perspectives are very welcome.
📢 1/4 We’re excited to share the launch of Disinformation: An Interdisciplinary Journal by @SageJournals. Among its editorial board members is our project PI, Professor @StephenHutchin6, alongside Professor Peter Knight, also of the UOM and one of our close collaborators.
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This is a really good report from CEPA on Russian Independent Media in Exile, but the implications of these two point are a bit depressing when you think about them for more than a second. cepa.org/comprehensive-repor…
🚨 New blog post! Ray Morgan, incoming PhD student in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, has written an insightful piece on Iran’s meme campaign. You can read it here - mis-translating-deceit.com/p…
4/4 Viewing this intellectual activity as part of a global exchange redefines the origins of propaganda studies. The article is part of the historical aspect of our project (mis-translating-deceit.com) and shows how many current related debates have important historical antecedents.
3/4 Far from working in isolation, they drew upon thinkers such as Karl Bücher, Grant Hyde, and Walter Lippmann while developing distinctive approaches, including the application of Formalist methods to media texts, that resonated internationally.
2/4 This article situates early Soviet studies of the press in the global history of mass communication and propaganda research.
In the 1920s, Soviet press scholars actively shaped global debates on the press’s role in mass society, how propaganda worked and why it often failed.
🧵1/4 New OA article by Vera Tolz and Alexandr Voronovici, ‘From Moscow to Cologne and across the Atlantic: Newspaper science and the global origins of Soviet mass communication ’, out @GlobalHistJnl.
- doi.org/10.1017/S17400228261…
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🚨 New blog post! Ray Morgan, incoming PhD student in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, has written an excellent piece on how the Rubio cable exposes the politics of defining disinformation. You can read it here -
mis-translating-deceit.com/p…
🚨 New blog post! Ray Morgan, incoming PhD student in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, has written an excellent piece on how the Rubio cable exposes the politics of defining disinformation. You can read it here -
mis-translating-deceit.com/p…