@ftripodi This week, we were pleased to have UNC Chapel Hill sociologist and media scholar @ftripodi, winner of the 2023 CIP Award for Impact & Excellence, visit the @uwcip in Seattle and join CIP director @katestarbird for a special discussion about Tripodi’s 2022 book, “The Propagandists’ Playbook,” and the research that went into it.
We look forward to sharing highlights from their conversation in an upcoming article.
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As researchers studying how rumors spread on social media face numerous challenges in 2024, including limited access to platform data, we “have to learn how to get insights from more limited sets of data,” @uwcip director and co-founder @katestarbird told Nature. “And that offers the opportunity for creativity.”
New from the @uwcip rapid-research team: Predictable errors and delays that have been the focus of previous election rumors were present in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, but none of the allegations went viral.
With little anxiety about Donald Trump’s primary prospects, Republican conspiracy theories pivoted to New Hampshire’s Democratic results.
Read more: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2024/01/26/republican-new-hampshire-conspiracy-theories/
@NPR has an article published Monday that references the
@uwcip rapid response blog post from Sunday examining the early election conspiracy theory taking shape in Iowa: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/15/1224675823/iowa-republican-caucus-results-reporting-technology
In an article published on Monday, @NPR references Sunday's @uwcip rapid-research blog post: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/15/1224675823/iowa-republican-caucus-results-reporting-technology
Read "Examining an early election conspiracy theory taking shape in Iowa," by CIP research scientist @Mike Caulfield: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2024/01/14/iowa-caucus-election-conspiracy-theory/
New from our team at the @uwcip: @mikecaulfield has a rapid research blog post examining an early election conspiracy theory taking shape in Iowa.
Recent allegations shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, point to a “conflict of interest” in Iowa Caucus vote counting but no specific wrongdoing is described.
Read more: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2024/01/14/iowa-caucus-election-conspiracy-theory/
"I think when people see how transparent a lot of the trickery that people fall for is, it's a mile wide and it's three millimeters deep," @uwcip research scientist @mikecaulfield said in a recent interview with KUOW Public Radio: https://www.kuow.org/stories/tips-for-sorting-online-fact-from-fiction
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A new Nature editorial on online "information voids" cites work from @uwcip research scientist and media literacy expert @mikecaulfield, who "says that there is value in exposing a wider population to some of the skills taught in research methods. He recommends starting with influential people, giving them opportunities to improve their own media literacy, as a way to then influence others in their networks."
In a @Poynter article, MediaWise director Alex Mahadevan writes that despite the ongoing legal and political attacks that academic researchers studying mis- and disinformation have been facing, he's "hopeful knowing how determined academics are to keep up their work in 2024," including @uwcip co-founder @katestarbird
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2024/misinformation-trends-2023-predictions-2024/
On Tuesday, January 9, 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Pacific) join the @uwcip via Zoom for a CIP Invited Speaker Series talk from University of Michigan School of Information associate professor Joyojeet Pal. In Tuesday's talk, Pal will examines the role of humor in the enabling of political hate speech and polarization in India.
Event info and RSVP to attend via Zoom: https://forms.gle/pDsi1kuv86a3ev5s7
In an article recently published in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, @uwcip researchers and colleagues present the promising results of three experimental investigations testing the potential effectiveness of a novel, user-driven approach to addressing online misinformation.
Read more about the paper, "Social truth queries: Development of a new user-driven intervention for countering online misinformation": https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/13/social-truth-queries-development-of-a-new-user-driven-intervention-for-countering-online-misinformation/
Happy New Year! As the winter academic quarter gets underway this week at UW, catch up on recent research, programming, news and other @uwcip updates in our jam-packed fall quarter CIP News & Insights newsletter: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/14/cip-news-insights-newsletter-december-2023/
In @washingtonpost, @pbump cites a recent essay by @uwcip co-founder @katestarbird, "Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking."
Read Starbird's essay: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/rumors-collective-sensemaking-kate-starbird/
Read Bump's article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/11/musk-alex-jones-x-misinformation/
@emmettoconnell #katestarbird #disinformation #misinformation #elections #uwcip Appreciate Kate Starbird’s work and her team reminding us that misinformation occurs with a context that enables growth of misinformation under the “defense” against censorship so ably claimed by GOP election deniers. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-gop-fights-secretary-of-states-effort-to-track-election-misinformation/
During "The Impact of Misinformation on Pediatric Mental Health and Wellbeing," a keynote address at the Children's Hospital of Orange County's annual Research Day, @uwcip co-founder Jevin West said he "worries about students’ mistrust of information online. They need to be skeptical," West said, according to a CHOC article, "but being totally cynical about the validity of information isn’t productive."
In an essay, "Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking," @uwcip director @katestarbird describes "a framework for examining online rumors, conspiracy theories, and disinformation through the lens of collective sensemaking. This perspective could inform more nuanced understandings, new ways to operationalize and study these phenomena, and alternative approaches for addressing them."
Read the essay: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/rumors-collective-sensemaking-kate-starbird/
During a recent WA Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee work session in Olympia, @uwcip co-founder Jevin West and research scientist @mikecaulfield shared a presentation on ways educators should approach the teaching of media literacy skills amid today’s volatile and rapidly evolving online information environments.
“If we lose the standards for evidence, we all lose,” Caulfield told committee members.
https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/05/media-literacy-education-washington/
"Advertisers are in a unique position to push for a more responsible and ethical online environment, addressing a gap where platforms have been slow to act. But it must be done with caution," @uwcip legal fellow Elissa Melendez writes in a blog post about the recent advertiser exodus from X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/04/advertiser-influence-platform-accountability-x-twitter/
The weaponized criticism of misinformation research is "limiting our ability just to do the research, because we're spending too much time with our lawyers, but also limiting our ability to have conversations with the people who need our work the most, whether that's election officials or whether that's social media platforms," @uwcip director and co-founder @katestarbird said in an interview with @NPR. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1211929764/election-false-claims-social-media-cisa-trump
Researchers at the @uwcip are starting on a new 3-year project to create a comprehensive, nationwide information literacy program that aims to increase capacity for library staff and community members to address and navigate problematic information in their local communities.
Learn more: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/11/07/cip-imls-grant-information-literacy-program-public-libraries/
