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  • 2 - Storytelling and/as Misinformation

  • Madelyn R. Sanfilippo, University of Illinois School of Information Sciences, Melissa G. Ocepek, University of Illinois School of Information Sciences
  • Book:
    Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons
    Published online:
    13 March 2025
    Print publication:
    20 March 2025, pp 18-40
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    Storytelling is everyday information behavior that, when it goes wrong, can propagate misinformation. From accurate data to misinformed stories, what goes wrong with the process? This chapter focuses on the dynamics of storytelling in misinformation as a problematic aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic in three widely circulated problematic stories. Storytelling offers a framework for researching collective experiences of information as a process that is inherently based in communities, with knowledge commons that are instantiated by the telling and retelling of stories, temporarily or permanently. To understand how difficult information is to govern in story form and through storytelling dynamics, this chapter uses storytelling theory to explore three recent cases of COVID-19 misinformation related to medicine misuse, exploiting vaccine hesitancy, and aftermath of medical racism. Understanding what goes wrong with these stories may be key to public health communications that engage effectively with communitiesÕ everyday misinformation challenges.Ê