SinaNov 10, 2022

While drinking coffee, I caught up with messages and some of the discussions on #disinformation and #Fimi revolved around the question whether we need precise definitions (to know the threat in detail) or if we need fuzzy terminology (to not be locked in a narrow scope). Noooooow, I got strong opinions on this (🤓) but really want to hear from the community what you think!

So - trying out the voting button here, but would also love to hear some arguments from everyone, in particular from @potemkinvillage but also anyone else, in the comments 😁

Precise definitions
44.4%
Fuzzy definitions
22.2%
Don't know yet, let's discuss
27.8%
Who cares about definitions
5.6%
Poll ended at .
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@potemkinvillage @Sina First thing, as translator, sense accuracy matters to me. But also, when following the discussion on my feed (not much free time today, so sporadically), all the details on research areas were enlightening (albeit complicated). If it’s good to have an “umbrella” term for the global research, I think it’s better if it’s not the same than just one research area (eg #disinformation), as that’s confusing.

Maybe a drawing would help

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@potemkinvillage @Sina
This is not a joke, BTW
I would find a schema laying down how propaganda 2.0 -and researching it- articulate very helpful
And well that could also maybe help with definitions and where they -literally- fit
Not sure if she’d be interested and/or have time but I’d recommend the Queen of the discipline for such a job, @wendysiegelman
There, just a thought from an amateur researcher
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@stilldelvingh @potemkinvillage @wendysiegelman I think that would be a great idea, unfortunately I'm not very handy with the pen 😅
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@Sina @potemkinvillage @wendysiegelman the hard work is to define a list of terms, specifying the term definition and how they connect with each other. Once you got that it’s all a question of layout -that I guess even I could do with tools like https://app.diagrams.net/
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Nov 11, 2022 at 11:59amWeb