‘Do your own research’: affordance activation and disinformation spread
August 30, 2023
Francesca B. Tripodi, Lauren C. Garcia, Alice E. Marwick
Information, Communication & Society
Mis/Disinformation
Social media policy in two dimensions
August 3, 2023
Heesoo Jang, Bridget Barrett, Shannon C. McGregor
Information, Communication & Society
Digital Infrastructures
Recentering power: conceptualizing counterpublics and defensive publics
June 19, 2023
Sarah J Jackson, Daniel Kreiss
Communication Theory
(In)Equity, Political Processes
Communication Studies, Political Communication, Theory
A Review and Provocation: On Polarization and Platforms
Polarization is the necessary byproduct of the struggle to realize democracy in unequal societies.Daniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor
New Media & Society
(In)Equity, Political Processes
Communication Studies, Elections, Polarization, Political Communication, Social Media
#Politicalcommunicationsowhite: Race and Politics in Nine Communication Journals, 1991-2021
Understanding communication requires accounting for social and cultural difference, especially race and ethnicityDeen Freelon, Meredith L. Pruden, Daniel Malmer
Political Communication
(In)Equity
Communication Studies, Political Communication, Race
“Too Soon” to Count? How Gender and Race Cloud Notability Considerations on Wikipedia
Wikipedia’s editors are more likely to consider you “notable” if you’re a white manMackenzie Emily Lemieux, Rebecca Zhang, Francesca Tripodi
Big Data & Society
(In)Equity, Digital Infrastructures
Fact-Checking, Gender, Knowledge-Production, Visibility, Wikipedia
Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking
Digital trace data can change the study of misinformation, algorithmic bias, and well-being.Jakob Ohme, Theo Araujo, Laura Boeschoten, Deen Freelon, Nilam Ram, Byron B. Reeves, Thomas N. Robinson
Communication Methods and Measures
Digital Infrastructures, Mis/Disinformation
Digital Trace Data, Methods, Social Media
Inequities of Race, Place, and Gender Among the Communication Citation Elite, 2000–2019
Who are you citing? In communication studies, the most cited authors are skewed even more white and male than previously thought.Deen Freelon, Meredith L Pruden, Kirsten A Eddy, Rachel Kuo
Journal of Communication
(In)Equity
Communication Studies, Education, Gender, Methods, Race
Libraries Comabating Disinformation: From the Front Line to the Long Game
The strategies you teach about search engine literacy might be out of dateFrancesca Tripodi, Jade Angelique Stevenson, Rachel Slama, Justin Reich
The Library Quarterly
Mis/Disinformation
Google, Knowledge-Production, Legitimacy
Privacy Without Power: What Privacy Research Can Learn from Surveillance Studies
You can’t understand privacy without understanding powerAlice E. Marwick
Surveillance & Society
(In)Equity, Digital Infrastructures
Communication Studies, Knowledge-Production, Social Media
The Institutional Capture of Abolitionist Dissent: Ending Genres of Police Science
Research can reproduce racial violence; here's how not to do thatMon Mohapatra, Rachel Kuo
Interactions
Digital Infrastructures
Policing, Race
Resisting Bureaucracies: Reflections on Community Engagement and Digital Technology
Community-based research can be tricky; this piece offers practical recommendations for a complicated processRachel Kuo
SSRC Just Tech
(In)Equity, Digital Infrastructures
Activism, Decoloniality, Knowledge-Production