Volume 10, Number 1 (2025) Disinformation and Naivete

Special Issue Introduction

This special issue of Binghamton University’s Undergraduate Journal, “Disinformation and Naiveté,” is a collection of selected essays from students who participated in the Source Project stream of the same name in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. The pieces feature a range of disciplines, including history, political science, philosophy, and more, and yet, the pieces each work within the same context and scholarly background of the emerging field of disinformation studies. Disinformation studies, the foundation for all these essays, is a framework examining false information intentionally spread to cause harm. The goal of the course was to test, define, and rework students’ perspectives of the field, while immersing themselves in independent research. With this issue, the authors and editor aim to highlight the discoveries and analyses produced during these classes, and showcase the Source Project as a distinctive feature of undergraduate studies in the humanities and social sciences at Binghamton University.