Ben O’Loughlin has published a new article arguing that debates about disinformation actually open a wider discussion about politics and democracy that can have positive consequences for public life. The article is Media Regime Disruption and the Conditions of Public Reflexivity, in International Journal of Communication. It is free to read and available here.

Ben shows that while disinformation gets attached to geopolitics, scandal and manipulation, it forces all to think about how connectivity can be better organised in a digital era and how the social can be better organised so that people have an understanding of the data they encounter. These are fundamental questions in this historical period. The transition from one media regime to another is just a part of that.

International Journal of Communication is ranked #3 in communication and #5 in the humanities. The article was written while Ben was Thinker in Residence at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brussels.