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
Disinformation as Political Communication
The time of "fake news" is over; "disinformation" has taken its placeDeen Freelon, Chris Wells
Political Communication
Mis/Disinformation
Identity, Political Communication, Propaganda
Legitimating a Platform: Evidence of Journalists’ Role in Transferring Authority to Twitter
Social media platforms legitimate speech and shape journalismLogan Molyneux, Shannon C. McGregor
Information, Communication & Society
Digital Infrastructures
Journalism, Twitter
Critical Disinformation Studies: A Syllabus
An essay in syllabus form, this piece expands our understanding of what “counts” as disinformationAlice Marwick, Rachel Kuo, Shanice Jones Cameron & Moira Weigel
Bulletin of Technology & Public Life
(In)Equity, Mis/Disinformation
Education, Race
Power in Ideas: A Case-Based Argument for Taking Ideas Seriously in Political Communication
Ideas matter, so the empirical means by which we study them does, tooKirsten Adams, Daniel Kreiss
Cambridge University Press
Political Processes
Legitimacy, Race, Social Media
Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement
Alice Marwick shows how moral outrage and shared moral norms energize networked, coordinated harassment onlineAlice E. Marwick
Social Media & Society
(In)Equity, Digital Infrastructures
Gender, Harassment, Identity
Ms. Categorized: Gender, Notability, and Inequality on Wikipedia
The ongoing fight to document women's contributions to society faces an uphill battle against users' interpretation of Wikipedia's "notability" requirements.Francesca Tripodi
New Media & Society
(In)Equity, Digital Infrastructures
Gender, Wikipedia
Meaningful Measures of Human Society in the Twenty-First Century
More data is available to researchers than ever before - but undertheorized, ad hoc methodologies make for inconsistent findingsDavid Lazer, Eszter Hargittai, Deen Freelon, Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Kevin Munger, Katherine Ognyanova, Jason Radford
Nature
Digital Infrastructures
Methods
State Regulation of Election-Related Speech in the U.S.: An Overview and Comparative Analysis
Regulations against misinformation already exist in forty-eight statesDavid S. Ardia, Evan Ringel, Allysan Scatterday
University of North Carolina Legal Studies Research Paper Series
Political Processes
Misinformation, Political Communication
Reopen Demands as Public Health Threat: A Sociotechnical Framework for Understanding the Stickiness of Misinformation
Discursive strategies help justify incompliance with public safety protocolsFrancesca Tripodi
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
Mis/Disinformation
Content Analysis, Facebook
The Capricious Relationship Between Technology and Democracy: Analyzing Public Policy Discussions in the UK and US
Policymakers' stated ideals for digital democracy often uphold utopian standards that depart from the empirical realityBridget Barrett, Katharine Dommett, Daniel Kreiss
Policy & Internet
Political Processes
Identity, Policy