Crime and Security Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Br J Sociol. 2020 Mar;71(2):284-299. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12735. Epub 2020 Jan 31.
Informed by social media data collected following four terror attacks in the UK in 2017, this article delineates a series of "techniques of disinformation" used by different actors to try and influence how the events were publicly defined and understood. By studying the causes and consequences of misleading information following terror attacks, the article contributes empirically to the neglected topic of social reactions to terrorism. It also advances scholarship on the workings of disinforming communications, by focusing on a domain other than political elections, which has been the empirical focus for most studies of disinformation to date. Theoretically, the analysis is framed by drawing an analogy with Gresham Sykes and David Matza's (1957) account of the role of "techniques of neutralization" originally published in the American Sociological Review. The connection being that where they studied deviant behaviour, a similar analytic lens can usefully be applied to disinformation cast as "deviant" information.
受 2017 年英国四起恐怖袭击后社交媒体数据的启发，本文勾勒出了一系列不同行为者试图用来影响公众如何定义和理解这些事件的“虚假信息技术”。通过研究恐怖袭击后误导性信息的原因和后果，本文为被忽视的恐怖主义社会反应这一主题提供了经验性的贡献。它还通过关注迄今为止关于虚假信息研究的大多数实证重点以外的领域，推进了对虚假信息传播的研究。从理论上讲，该分析借鉴了 Gresham Sykes 和 David Matza（1957）在《美国社会学评论》上发表的关于“中立化技术”作用的论述，将原本用于研究越轨行为的分析视角，同样有效地应用于被视为“越轨”的虚假信息。
