Psychological inoculation strategies to fight climate disinformation across 12 countries

T Spampatti, UJJ Hahnel, E Trutnevyte… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Decades after the scientific debate about the anthropogenic causes of climate change was
settled, climate disinformation still challenges the scientific evidence in public discourse …

Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia's contradictory discourse of imperial identity

V Tolz, S Hutchings - Post-Soviet Affairs, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article offers a qualitative analysis of how, by adopting identity-related discourses
whose meanings resonate within a given culture, Russian state propaganda strives to …

Mis-and disinformation studies are too big to fail: Six suggestions for the field's future

CQ Camargo, FM Simon - Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation …, 2022 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Who are mis-/disinformation studies for? What agenda does the field serve? How can it be
improved? While the increase in the attention towards the topic in the last years is healthy, it …

“On WhatsApp I say what I want”: Messaging apps, diaspora communities, and networked counterpublics in the United States

IK Trauthig, SC Woolley - New Media & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Critical scholars have assessed conceptualizations of “the public sphere” with a focus on
contestation and plurality for several years. Recent studies comment on how specific social …

Overcome the fragmentation in online propaganda literature: the role of cultural and cognitive sociology

V Nerino - Frontiers in sociology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Evidence concerning the proliferation of propaganda on social media has renewed scientific
interest in persuasive communication practices, resulting in a thriving yet quite disconnected …

“We never really talked about politics”: Race and ethnicity as foundational forces structuring information disorder within the Vietnamese diaspora

S Nguyễn, RE Moran, TA Nguyen, L Bui - Political Communication, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper joins a growing effort within mis/disinformation research to better address the
transnational spread of misinformation and, in particular, the impact of political …

Designing misinformation interventions for all: Perspectives from AAPI, Black, Latino, and Native American community leaders on misinformation educational efforts

AY Lee, RC Moore, JT Hancock - Harvard Kennedy School …, 2023 - par.nsf.gov
This paper examines strategies for making misinformation interventions responsive to four
communities of color. Using qualitative focus groups with members of four non-profit …

Participatory Design and Power in Misinformation, Disinformation, and Online Hate Research

JS Schafer, K Starbird, DK Rosner - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
As a research tradition, participatory design (PD) tends to focus on power dynamics where
researchers hold greater power than participants. This paper uses design fiction to consider …

Building resilience to misinformation in communities of color: Results from two studies of tailored digital media literacy interventions

AY Lee, RC Moore, JT Hancock - new media & society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Interventions to build resilience to misinformation should consider the needs of communities
of color, who experience (mis) information in unique ways. We evaluated digital media …

Taking the power back: How diaspora community organizations are fighting misinformation spread on encrypted messaging apps

JVS Ozawa, S Woolley, J Lukito - Harvard Kennedy …, 2024 - misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu
Implications An extensive body of research has investigated political misinformation within
the United States to the extent that researchers have published comprehensive reviews …