True Costs of Misinformation| Transnational Information Networks: Methods for Cross-Diasporic Research

Abstract

This article outlines a qualitative, community-engaged, and pedagogical approach for studying mis- and disinformation spread across transnational, intergenerational, and multilingual networks within Asian diasporic communities. Asian America is a vast diasporic umbrella with a diverse array of linguistic and cultural backgrounds and histories across local and transnational geographies, and a holistic study across communities requires a methodological process and framework that can account for community-based differences across communication platforms, cultural contexts, languages, and histories. Bringing together a combination of community workshops, oral histories, focus groups, and public-facing outreach, this study approaches mis- and disinformation from the lens of how people’s lived experiences of survival and migration and positionings across different formations of power connect with their political engagement across national boundaries and consumption of news information.