@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/
Predictable errors and delays that have been the focus of previous election rumors were present in New Hampshire, but none of the allegations went viral.
@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/
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
On Tuesday, January 9, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. (Pacific), join the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public for a CIP Invited Speaker Series talk with University of Michigan School of Information Associate Professor Joyojeet Pal. Please join us for this discussion via Zoom! RSVP to attend using this form. We will follow up approximately 24 hours ahead of the event to share Zoom information to attend virtually. About the Talk: "101 Funny Ways to Engineer Hate Speech" Social Media Influencers are at the forefront of hate speech peddling in India. In this talk, Joyojeet Pal examines the role of humor in the enabling of political hate speech and polarization in India and examines the work of digital influencers who use the cover of satire to put out incendiary content and argue that the affordances of social media allow for aggressive forms of organized and targeted hate speech. Pal argues that humor provides a means to normalize prejudice and avoid the legal implications of incitement to violence. Examining this trend within the history of political and campaign speech in India, we consider reasons for why this is a particularly dangerous trend leading up to general elections, and how the case of India may be one for political systems around the world to learn from. About the Speaker: Joyojeet Pal is an Associate Professor at the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, he served as Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he was part of the Technology for Emerging Markets group and started a group studying Social Media and Society. His research has covered the use of social media in mainstream politics and shown ways in which social media has emerged as a dominant force in political outreach, and in turn, institutional capture. In the past, Joyojeet has been a visiting scholar at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology University of Tokyo in 2013, and at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University in 2015. Questions about this event? Email [email protected] or CIP postdoctoral scholar Yiwei Xu at [email protected]. Sign up for the CIP News & Insights newsletter. Information collected via this RSVP form will only be used for follow-up messages about this event, including the Zoom information to attend virtually.
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