Framing

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Sharmila Parmanand

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Fake News and Disinformation

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Framing is another form of fake news delivered subtly with deliberate framing of context to make it believable. It is a form of spreading information—that technically—isn’t always considered as an outright lie but involves the very deliberate omission of the important narrative setting to make it appear that certain organizations or individuals pose a great threat or risk. Instead of a straight-up lie, “Framing” is spread as misleading language to discredit others.

To battle fake news, we must also be aware of this method of disinformation. It is very easy, especially for people in power, to tag certain personalities or organizations and discredit them by creating a distorted story. Usually, framing occurs through paid trolls and propagandist who espouses authoritarian control to silence critical thinking expressed on the internet.

Course Features

Lectures 2
Quizzes 2
Duration 1 hour
Skill level All levels
Language English
Students 18
Assessments Yes

Framing 4
- Lecture1.1
  
  Video Lecture
- Lecture1.2
  
  Slide Presentation
- Quiz1.1
  
  I. Understanding FRAMING in the new media 4 questions
- Quiz1.2
  
  II. Why does Framing work? 6 questions

Sharmila Parmanand

Dr. Sharmila Parmanand has a Ph.D. in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge on a Gates scholarship. Her doctoral research examined ‘sex trafficking’ discourses and interventions in the Philippines from a critical perspective. Most of her research projects interrogate how development and state interventions targeted at women in the global south reflect and shape their lived realities, with a focus on gender and international development, the politics of knowledge production, and feminist entanglements with the state on issues of human rights and women’s precarious labour.
She has a master’s in Development Studies from the University of Melbourne on an Australian Leadership Award scholarship and a Bachelor’s in Political Science from Ateneo de Manila University. She was previously a Gender and Human Rights Teaching Fellow at the LSE Department of Gender Studies and a lecturer at the University of Vermont Department of Theatre and the Ateneo de Manila University Department of English and Literature. She is also one of the former instructors of Media Civics Lab way back in 2020-21.