Thursday, July 09, 2026

Book: The Patina of Distrust

in the foreground a horizontal spire of yellowy foxtail lily with greenery in teh background
One of the joint-winners of the ASIS&T information science book of the year award is:
Mitchelstein, E., Boczkowski, P.J., Wagner, M.C. & Suenzo, F. (2025). The Patina of Distrust: What People Do with Misinformation. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550765/the-patina-of-distrust/ ISBN: 9780262550765
The online open access version is here https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6048/The-Patina-of-DistrustWhat-People-Do-with
The book analyses news reception in Argentina’s 2019 presidential election "drawing from interviews, survey data, and experiments" and they also more briefly address reception of news in the COVID19 pandemic and the 2023 election of the Argentine president Javier Milei. They focus on "the dynamics of reception that mediate between the production and spread of misinformation on the one hand, and its potential effects on the other"
Photo by Sheila Webber: foxtail lily, June 2026

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