How Mis- and Disinformation Spread in Asian Diasporas
March 24, 2022
Sarah Nguyễn, Rachel Kuo, Madhavi Reddi, Lan Li, Rachel E. Moran
Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review
Mis/Disinformation
Misinformation
Far-Right Online Radicalization: A Review of the Literature
Radicalization is gradual - and not confined to marginalized members of global societiesAlice Marwick, Benjamin Clancy, Katherine Furl
Bulletin of Technology & Public Life
Digital Infrastructures
Conspiracy, Identity, Religion, Social Media
Constructing Alternative Facts: Populist Expertise and the QAnon Conspiracy
Participatory-based knowledge-production practices protect conspiracy theories from critical thinkingAlice E. Marwick, William Clyde Partin
New Media & Society
Mis/Disinformation
Populism, QAnon
‘Immigration Will Destroy Us’ and Other Talking Points
April 1, 2022
Francesca Tripodi
Define American
(In)Equity
Race, YouTube
Owning Identity Struggles to Align Voters during the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Political candidates draw on their personal identities to build social identity-based coalitionsDaniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor
University of Michigan Press
Political Processes
Elections, Identity, Social Media
You’ve Got Mail: How the Trump Administration Used Legislative Communication to Frame His Last Year in Office
Under Trump, the Official White House Newsletter was transformed into a feedback loop with conservative news producersFrancesca Tripodi, Yuanye Ma
Information, Communication & Society
Digital Infrastructures, Political Processes
Content Analysis, Email
Vaccine Discourse in White Nationalist Online Communication: A Mixed-Methods Computational Approach
Anti-vaccine sentiment strong among white nationalists - with some predictable exceptionsDror Walter, Yotam Ophir, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Meredith L. Pruden
Social Science & Medicine
Mis/Disinformation
Comp. Social Sciences, Conspiracy, Health Communication, Race
Forward in The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System
Tressie McMillan Cottom
MacMillan Publishers
(In)Equity
Race
Faith in the White House: Examining the Language and Performance of Spiritual Leadership in the U.S. Presidency
Performing spiritual leadership is more fraught in times of political polarizationKirsten A. Eddy
Journal of Media and Religion
Political Processes
Content Analysis, Religion
Academic Caregivers on Organizational and Community Resilience in Academia (Fuck Individual Resilience)
Academic understandings of resilience must shift away from individualized ideas toward community resilience, particularly when it comes to caregiving and caregiversSun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Emily T. Cripe, Brooke Foucault Welles, Shannon C. McGregor, Katy E. Pearce, Nikki Usher, Jessica Vitak
Communication, Culture and Critique
(In)Equity
Activism, Education, Resilience
Identity Propaganda: Racial Narratives and Disinformation
Think of narratives that alienate, essentialize, and undermine people based on identity-based differences as identity propagandaMadhavi Reddi, Rachel Kuo, Daniel Kreiss
New Media & Society
(In)Equity, Mis/Disinformation
Identity, Race
Against Carceral Data Collection in Response to Anti-asian Violences
Data infrastructures created through hate crimes legislation bolsters the carceral stateRachel Kuo, Matthew Bui
Big Data & Society
(In)Equity, Digital Infrastructures
Policing, Race