An important article by Marc Owen Jones for all those working in digital zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marc Owen Jones; Lessons from the Digital Coalface in the Post-Truth Age: Researching the Middle East Amid Authenticity Vacuums, Transnational Repression & Disinformation.\u00a0Daedalus<\/em><\/em>\u00a02025; 154 (2): 132\u2013156<\/a>. doi:\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/daed_a_02144<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Indeed, the more I conduct online research, the more uncertain I am that ve- An important article by Marc Owen Jones for all those working in digital zones. Marc Owen Jones; Lessons from the Digital Coalface in the Post-Truth Age: Researching the Middle East Amid Authenticity Vacuums, Transnational Repression & Disinformation.\u00a0Daedalus\u00a02025; 154 (2): 132\u2013156. doi:\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/daed_a_02144 “Indeed, the more I conduct online research, the more uncertain I am that ve-racity…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,421,129,523,255,895,5,277,114,458,276,425],"tags":[58,761,593,89,55,60,470,577],"class_list":["post-8392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahrain","category-bahrain-internet","category-censorship","category-cyber-security","category-human-rights","category-prosecutions","category-research","category-saudi-arabia","category-saudi-arabia-internet","category-surveillance","category-uae","category-uae-digital","tag-censorship","tag-mena-digital","tag-methodology","tag-research","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-security","tag-surveillance","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8392\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
racity of data should even be a default assumption in digital research. For so long,
an epistemological assumption of social media data has been that a social media
account represents a living, real individual who is not acting with ulterior motives
or under duress. A necessary precaution for digital research may be to challenge
or even reverse this assumption.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"