Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons

Madelyn Rose R. Sanfilippo studies sociotechnical governance, broadly exploring privacy, inequality, and political consequences of information technology. She co-edited Governing Privacy in Knowledge Commons (2021) and Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons (2023) and co-authored three previous books: Online Trolling and Its Perpetrators: Under the Cyberbridge (2016); Social Informatics Evolving (2015); and Multiculturalism and Information and Communication Technology (2013). Melissa G. Ocepek studies everyday information behavior, critical theory, copyright, and food studies. She has co-authored Food in the Internet Age (2013) and Formal and Informal Approaches to Food Policy (2014), as well as co-edited Deciding Where to Live: Information Studies on Where to Live in America (2020).

• 1. Introduction: governing everyday misinformation Melissa G. Ocepek and Madelyn R. Sanfilippo; 2. Storytelling and/as Misinformation: storytelling dynamics and narrative structures for three cases of COVID-19 viral misinformation Kate McDowell; 3. It's not (all) about the information: the role of cognition in creating and sustaining false beliefs Dominique Kelly and Jacquelyn Burkell; 4. Information Hazing: An Examination through Computer Science Education Elizabeth Wickes and Melissa G. Ocepek; 5. Common nonsense about password security and the expert-layperson knowledge gap Brett Frischmann and Alexandria Johnson; 6. Hacks, Fakes, and Hot Takes: Moderating 'bad actors' on Google Maps Local Guides Platform Rebecca Noone and Aparajita Bhandari; 7. The Human Infrastructures of Misinformation: A Case Study of Brazil's Heteromated Labor David Nemer and William Marks; 8. Hidden Virality and the Everyday Burden of Correcting WhatsApp Mis- and Disinformation Britt Paris and Irene Pasquetto; 9. Do Your Own Research: Everyday Misinformation and Conspiracy in Online Information Worlds Gary Burnett and Shannon Williams; 10. How To Manage Issues on Twitter: Perspectives From Twitter Users Concerned About Mis/Dis-Information Sin, Sei-Ching Joanna and Kim, Kyung-Sun; 11. Accepting and Expecting Deception: Community Governance of False, Fabricated, Omitted, and Out of Context Claims on Instagram Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo and Smita Katherine Nair; 12. Co-constructing misinformation and community: some conclusions Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo and Melissa G. Ocepek.