MediaWell is inviting scholars and educators to explore our Zotero library—a curated collection of 5,500+ cross-disciplinary texts on digital information ecosystems. This open call encourages you to design and share course syllabi using our resources! Interested? Email us by July 14, 2025.

How is digital power distributed, and who gets to shape the future? This book roundup highlights recent books tackling key topics like influence, governance, AI ethics, trust, and activism. With expert perspectives from scholars and industry insiders, these books unpack the narratives shaping our present and future, along with a preview of 2025’s must-read titles.

This literature review summarizes key response strategies from the Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT) project, which offers a research-backed framework to foster trust and productive dialogue. Navigating contentious online conversations can be challenging, but the ARTT catalog offers a collaborative database of evidence-based insights on healthy digital communication. This review will help answer the question, “what do I say, and how do I say it” for anyone who communicates online.

As counter-disinformation strategies face mounting challenges—shrinking budgets, shifting alliances between tech and governments, and the limits of top-down techno-legal solutions—civil society in the Global Majority offers innovative alternatives. In this article, Ong and Jackson describe an alternative agenda that prioritizes community resilience, challenges the structures fueling disinformation, and provides actionable insights for Global North partners to better support the creativity and autonomy of Global Majority civil society organizations.

In recent election cycles, political violence has afflicted democracies worldwide. From assaults against candidates in France to riotous nationalism in India and to the seditious attacks on the government in the US and Brazil, civilians in democracies are increasingly participating in politics using violence. Notably, many of these instances of violence are predicated on mis- and disinformation, which are used to amplify political mobilization and target out-group ideologies. This review explores how mis- and disinformation fuel political violence in democracies by examining the drivers of unrest, the role of institutions in shaping disinformation, and the connection between misinformation and polarization, while highlighting strategies to disrupt harmful narratives.