Kate StarbirdIf anyone is at all curious as to why researchers like myself and my colleagues are under attack, perhaps some of our papers might be of interest. Here's a recent one on participatory disinformation and the 2020 election: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231177943
Here's another paper — to be presented by lead student Stephen Prochaska in October at the CSCW conference — which explores how Trump supporters mobilized on top of participatory disinformation leading up to and following the 2020 election: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3579616
Mobilizing Manufactured Reality: How Participatory Disinformation Shaped Deep Stories to Catalyze Action during the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Claims of election fraud throughout the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and during the lead up to the January 6, 2021 insurrection attempt have drawn attention to the urgent need to better understand how people interpret and act on disinformation. In ...