Suspicious stories: taking narrative seriously in disinformation research.
The concept of narrative has been widely employed in the disinformation literature. Nonetheless, its use has been dominated by loose intuitions of what narratives are and do alongside vague accounts of specific stories. Theorized more carefully, thinking in terms of narrative has much to offer disin...
| Publicado en: | Communication Theory (1050-3293) Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 106 - 117 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
May2026
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