Chernobrov, D. orcid.org/0000-0002-6598-0412 (2025) Participatory propaganda and the intentional (re)production of disinformation around international conflict. Critical Studies in Media Communication. ISSN 1529-5036
Abstract
This essay explores the changing role of the public in persuasion. I focus on participatory propaganda—which I define as the involvement of publics in the (re)production of persuasive, manipulative, or false content through social networks. Specifically, I draw attention to two underexplored areas: participatory propaganda in international rather than domestic politics, and motivations for publics to knowingly, rather than unwittingly, share propagandistic content. The discussion is illustrated with brief insights from a large-scale study of online narrative battles between the Armenian and Azerbaijani diasporas during the 2020 Karabakh war.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Participatory propaganda; disinformation; audience; Karabakh war |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Journalism Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2025 12:08 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2025 12:08 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/15295036.2025.2467433 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:224504 |