Research (archived)
Recent Publications
Announcing the Bulletin of Technology & Public Life
Today, we’re excited to launch the Bulletin of Technology and Public Life! Built on PubPub’s open-source platform, the Bulletin is an online library of research on mis- and disinformation, platforms, networks, infrastructure, and political processes. We hope that the Bulletin … Continued
Francesca Tripodi on anti-immigration YouTube networks
Define American recently released a new report, “’Immigration Will Destroy Us’ and Other Talking Points.” It describes how popular anti-immigration YouTube videos frame the issue and their influence on offline conversations and perceptions. One section, co-authored by Francesca Tripodi, Shauna … Continued
How mis- and disinformation spread in Asian diasporas
The bulk of research on mis- and disinformation studies English-language cases and communities—but we know that identity plays an important role in how we consume, interpret, and share information. In a piece for the HKS Misinformation Review, Sarah Nguyen, Rachel … Continued
How QAnon constructs alternate facts
How does QAnon build and elaborate on its core theory? Alice Marwick and William Partin released a preprint of “Constructing Alternative Facts: Populist Expertise and the QAnon Conspiracy,” exploring QAnon as a participatory culture and digging into how Anons build … Continued
Research Topics
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) is an initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dedicated to researching, understanding, and responding to the growing impact of the internet, social media, and other forms of digital information sharing.
- Deen Freelon: political expression through digital media, data science and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets
- Daniel Kreiss: impact of technological change on the public sphere and political practice
- Alice Marwick: social, political and cultural implications of popular social media technologies
- Zeynep Tufekci: social movements and civics, privacy and surveillance, social interaction, big data, algorithmic decision making
- Gary Marchionini: human-information interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries
- David Ardia: impact of new information technologies on law and society, legal and social effects on government and private intermediaries, role of government and private intermediaries in shaping speech
- Tori Ekstrand: hot news doctrine and its impact in the age of Big Data
CITAP Digital Politics
Platforms and digital media have fundamentally changed electoral politics. Launched in January 2020, citapdigitalpolitics.com offers a set of resources for analyzing how platforms, law, and ethics shape the ways campaigns communicate with voters.
Watch and Learn
Watch these talks by CITAP investigators to learn more about their research and findings.
Long-form Content
For additional books and public reports, go the CITAP People page and link to each faculty member’s homepage.
