After a successful 1st edition in Hamburg, Germany, the international MISDOOM symposium on misinformation in online media returns for a…
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Focus Tag: Media Studies
The Misinformation Review | Shorenstein Center
by Shorenstein Center
January 14, 2020
The widespread adoption of digital media and information technologies made it exponentially easier and faster to produce, disseminate, and be…
Why We Need Industry-Independent Research on Tech & Society | CAT Lab
by J. Nathan Matias
January 7, 2020
Is too much red meat bad for your health? The fate of a trillion dollar industry depends on the answer.…
Twitter offers more support to researchers — to ‘keep us accountable’ | TechCrunch
by Natasha Lomas
January 6, 2020
Twitter has kicked off the New Year by taking the wraps off a new hub for academic researchers to more easily…
It’s the network, stupid: Study offers fresh insight into why we’re so divided | Ars Technica
by Jennifer Ouellette
January 6, 2020
Social perception bias is best defined as the all-too-human tendency to assume that everyone else holds the same opinions and values…
The Reality Game by Samuel Woolley | PublicAffairs
by PublicAffairs Books
January 2, 2020
Fake news posts and Twitter trolls were just the beginning. What will happen when misinformation moves from our social media…
Misinformation vs. media studies: on teaching to fish | Journalism.co.uk
by Julian McDougall
December 23, 2019
In the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University, we recently published recommendations from our research into the…
Polarization in the Twittersphere: What 86 million tweets reveal about the political makeup of American Twitter users and how they engage with news | Medium
by Evette Treewater Alexander
December 17, 2019
On Dec. 17, 2019, Knight Foundation released a two-part study analyzing the political dynamics of 86 million tweets. Download part…
Knight’s Initiative on Tech and Democracy Comes into Sharper Focus | Inside Philanthropy
by Mike Scutari
December 11, 2019
In February, the Knight Foundation announced a $300 million initiative to strengthen journalism and democracy. Five months later, as part…
13th ACM International WSDM Conference
December 3, 2019
"WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. The 13th ACM…