Your draft was quite interesting to read, because I haven’t thought about digital misinformation in that sense you described it in your paper! I also really liked the quote at the beginning of your paper, because it makes the reader curious how you connect it with digital misinformation!
Furthermore I think you paper is well structured and you always describe why a chapter is important for your subject!
In addition to that, I liked that you choose misinformation in sales data at one point of your paper as an example. It maybe would be a good idea to refer to that example in later parts of your paper too, because then the reader has a connection to it get a better idea what you exactly mean.
What I missed about your paper is the quotation. Where do you get your information from? When you used a direct quote there is quotation, but what about the other paragraphs?
I think you have chosen an interesting topic for your paper!
Good luck with your final course work! 🙂
You have a really interesting topic and I enjoy the reading.
I think your draft is very good structured and written understandable.
I agree with Julia there are not so much quotes in your paper but many things are comprehensible.
Maybe you can add some more examples for the digital misinformation, i think that create a better view on this topic.
But all in all I am looking forward to your final paper! 🙂
Your concept is a nice setup for your final paper, good work! I agree with Julia and Matthias about your references, but that is also what you already realise given your comment in the beginning.
You make some very strong points about misinformation and how it is not fundamentally different in the digital world then in the analog world, but that due to the characteristics of the digital world it can occur more; nice!
For me the structure of the paper could be somewhat improved. The start with the quote of Socrates is very nice, but after the general introduction based on the quote you can make the structure of the paper more clear I think. I would suggest you clearly introduce your sections: definition, analog vs digital, reasons for misinformation (or maybe call it motives?), Misinformation behaviour and conclusion. Maybe you can also add a specific part about how we seek and process information?
Finally, I would try to find a different form for the end of your current section “reasons for misinformation”. “This disgusting behavior is very typical on the internet since in many cases it has been successful for the sites to do so regardless on how frustrated the reader base might become.” It is not very strong to give qualifications like this in a scientific paper. Although I respect your opinion about the described behaviour,
a bit more considering the different possible viewpoints would fit better I think in this kind of paper. Your current formulation fits better in an opinon article.
In many parts you reasoned well why you handle certain topics. You have some good aspects, but the thread of the whole paper wasn’t that visible. It was also a bit hard to comment the text, as it is so unfinished both in linguistic form and in quotations.
It didn’t become quite clear to me if you handle the misinformation use/spread of individuals or of websites, or even both. Or are you trying to find out what kind of misinformation there is in general in digital environment? I have some trouble seeing the connection between trying to find out what kind of form misinformation takes and the information behaviour part of the aspect. You may have a clear view of it but try to reason it in your paper as well.
I agree with Arthur about the strong expressions. Even though you’d say your opinion (what is of course extremely important!), it may be wise to do it in a more subtle way.
I however think that you have a good start! You just have to specify a bit what you research question is and try to answer it. Reading some more studies may also help in it.
Your draft was quite interesting to read, because I haven’t thought about digital misinformation in that sense you described it in your paper! I also really liked the quote at the beginning of your paper, because it makes the reader curious how you connect it with digital misinformation!
Furthermore I think you paper is well structured and you always describe why a chapter is important for your subject!
In addition to that, I liked that you choose misinformation in sales data at one point of your paper as an example. It maybe would be a good idea to refer to that example in later parts of your paper too, because then the reader has a connection to it get a better idea what you exactly mean.
What I missed about your paper is the quotation. Where do you get your information from? When you used a direct quote there is quotation, but what about the other paragraphs?
I think you have chosen an interesting topic for your paper!
Good luck with your final course work! 🙂
You have a really interesting topic and I enjoy the reading.
I think your draft is very good structured and written understandable.
I agree with Julia there are not so much quotes in your paper but many things are comprehensible.
Maybe you can add some more examples for the digital misinformation, i think that create a better view on this topic.
But all in all I am looking forward to your final paper! 🙂
Your concept is a nice setup for your final paper, good work! I agree with Julia and Matthias about your references, but that is also what you already realise given your comment in the beginning.
You make some very strong points about misinformation and how it is not fundamentally different in the digital world then in the analog world, but that due to the characteristics of the digital world it can occur more; nice!
For me the structure of the paper could be somewhat improved. The start with the quote of Socrates is very nice, but after the general introduction based on the quote you can make the structure of the paper more clear I think. I would suggest you clearly introduce your sections: definition, analog vs digital, reasons for misinformation (or maybe call it motives?), Misinformation behaviour and conclusion. Maybe you can also add a specific part about how we seek and process information?
Finally, I would try to find a different form for the end of your current section “reasons for misinformation”. “This disgusting behavior is very typical on the internet since in many cases it has been successful for the sites to do so regardless on how frustrated the reader base might become.” It is not very strong to give qualifications like this in a scientific paper. Although I respect your opinion about the described behaviour,
a bit more considering the different possible viewpoints would fit better I think in this kind of paper. Your current formulation fits better in an opinon article.
Besides these (small) comments I made some in-text comments, see this file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lpehw8r2n9psrq5/Digital%20misinformation%20-%20Vilhelm%20L%C3%B6nnberg%20-%20comments%20Arthur%20Verkerke.pdf?dl=0
Good luck finishing your final paper, I think it is getting very good!
In many parts you reasoned well why you handle certain topics. You have some good aspects, but the thread of the whole paper wasn’t that visible. It was also a bit hard to comment the text, as it is so unfinished both in linguistic form and in quotations.
It didn’t become quite clear to me if you handle the misinformation use/spread of individuals or of websites, or even both. Or are you trying to find out what kind of misinformation there is in general in digital environment? I have some trouble seeing the connection between trying to find out what kind of form misinformation takes and the information behaviour part of the aspect. You may have a clear view of it but try to reason it in your paper as well.
I agree with Arthur about the strong expressions. Even though you’d say your opinion (what is of course extremely important!), it may be wise to do it in a more subtle way.
I however think that you have a good start! You just have to specify a bit what you research question is and try to answer it. Reading some more studies may also help in it.