Delighted to announce that my PhD thesis "Misinformation Claims in Australian News: Lies, Fakes, and Scare Campaigns" is now available on QUT E-Prints at doi.org/10.5204/thes.... Big moment 🥹 massive, unspeakably huge thanks to my family, my supervisors, and my thoughtful and engaged interviewees. - ThreadSky

phoebesophist.bsky.social • 22 hours ago

Delighted to announce that my PhD thesis "Misinformation Claims in Australian News: Lies, Fakes, and Scare Campaigns" is now available on QUT E-Prints at https://doi.org/10.5204/thesis.eprints.256951. Big moment 🥹 massive, unspeakably huge thanks to my family, my supervisors, and my thoughtful and engaged interviewees.

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jeanburgess.bsky.social•2 hours ago

So exciting, congratulations Dr Matich! Hope you already changed your email signature :)

lagrandeasperge2.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Sorry you wasted such a monumental amount of time and energy. Just a Quick Look sees u posted Walz misrepresenting the fact that illegal aliens are entitled to freedom? No they broke the law and have no standing in the USA 🤡. Uni r rubbish now 🤡

phoebesophist.bsky.social•22 hours ago

My thesis shows that online misinformation is only one part of the story - and that content-oriented definitions are limited and can't explain the political complexities that contribute to information disorder. Reconceptualising misinformation as a relational practice, I show that...

phoebesophist.bsky.social•22 hours ago

how it is reported differs between international and domestic news, where journalists separate social media from domestic human politics, and then separate politicians' personalised claims from policy claims with evidence available for them to debunk...

phoebesophist.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I find several organisational and normative reasons for these decisions, among them that journalists are human and understand human truth as a spectrum - but also that, in Australia at least, they strive to avoid exposure to defamation proceedings, which scientific misinfo statements may risk...

phoebesophist.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Nevertheless, journalists argue for their authority on the basis that social media is untrustworthy and misinformation inauthentic, though they remain vulnerable to human politics. These structural complexities underpin contemp public understandings of misinformation, with dangerous implications.

phoebesophist.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Huge thanks as well to my examiners for engaging so deeply with my work and taking the time to go through every bit!

davemilbo.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Congratulations, Phoebe!

phoebesophist.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Thank you!!!

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