This list represents peer-reviewed articles and other contributions published in 2023 authored or co-authored by faculty members, research scientists and fellows, postdoctoral scholars, doctoral and other students affiliated or previously affiliated with the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (in bold).
- Mike Caulfiled and Sam Wineburg. Verified: How to think straight, get duped less, and make better decisions about what to believe online. University of Chicago Press (2023) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/V/bo207015182.html
- Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West. “How publishers can fight misinformation in and about science and medicine.” Nature Medicine. (2023) doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02411-7
- Emma S. Spiro and Kate Starbird. “Rumors have rules.” Issues in Science and Technology. (2023) doi.org/10.58875/CXGL5395
- Himanshu Zade, Spencer Williams, Theresa T. Tran, Christina Smith, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Gary Hsieh, and Kate Starbird. “To reply or to quote: Comparing conversational framing strategies on Twitter.” ACM Journal on Computing and Societies. (2023) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3625680
- Kate Starbird. “From accidental rumors to pervasive disinformation: A decade of misinformation research.” National Academy of Engineering. (2023) nae.edu/305228/From-Accidental-Rumors-to-Pervasive-Disinformation-A-Decade-of-Misinformation-Research
- Andrew Beers, Joseph S. Schafer, Ian Kennedy, Morgan Wack, Emma S. Spiro, and Kate Starbird. “Followback clusters, satellite audiences, and bridge nodes: Coengagement networks for the 2020 U.S. election.” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/download/22126/21905
- Kristen Engle, Shruti Phadke, and Tanushree Mitra. “Learning from the ex-believers: Individuals’ journeys in and out of conspiracy theories online.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2023) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3610076
- Prerna Juneja, Md Momen Bhuiyan, and Tanushree Mitra. “Assessing enactment of content regulation policies: A post hoc crowd-sourced audit of election misinformation on YouTube.” Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2023)
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3544548.3580846 - Sarah Nguyễn, Rachel E. Moran, Trung-Anh Nguyen, and Linh Bui. “We never really talked about politics”: Race and ethnicity as foundational forces structuring information disorder within the Vietnamese Diaspora.” Political Communication. (2023) doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2201940
- Himanshu Zade, Megan Woodruff, Erika Johnson, Mariah Stanley, Zhennan Zhou, Minh Tu Huynh, Alissa Elizabeth Acheson, Gary Hsieh, and Kate Starbird. “Tweet trajectory and AMPS-based contextual cues can help users identify misinformation.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2023) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3579536
- Tamar Wilner, Kayo Mimizuka, Ayesha Bhimdiwala, Jason C. Young, and Ahmer Arif. “It’s about time: Attending to temporality in misinformation interventions.” Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2023) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3544548.3581068
- Rachel E. Moran, Stephen Prochaska, Izzi Grasso, and Isabelle Schlegel. “Navigating information-seeking in conspiratorial waters: Anti-trafficking advocacy and education post QAnon.” Proceedings of the AMC on Human-Computing Interaction, Vol. 7, Issue CSCW1 (2023) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3579510
- Stephen Prochaska, Kayla Duskin, Zarine Kharazian, Carly Minow, Stephanie Blucker, Sylvie Venuto, Jevin D. West, and Kate Starbird. “Mobilizing manufactured reality: How participatory disinformation shaped deep stories to catalyze action during the 2020 U.S. presidential election.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 7, Issue CSCW1 (2023) dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3579616
- Kate Starbird, Renee DiResta, and Matt DeButts. “Influence and improvisation: Participatory disinformation during the 2020 U.S. election.” Social Media + Society’s Special Issue on Political Influencers. (2023) doi.org/10.1177/2056305123117794
- Joseph S. Schafer, Kate Starbird, and Daniela K. Rosner. “Participatory design and power in misinformation, disinformation, and online hate research.” Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. (2023) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3563657.3596119
- Andrew Beers, Sarah Nguyễn, Kate Starbird, Jevin D West, and Emma S. Spiro. “Selective and deceptive citation in the construction of dueling consensuses.” Science Advances. (2023) science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adh1933
- Rachel E. Moran, Sarah Nguyễn, and Linh Bui. “Sending news back home: Misinformation lost in transnational social networks.” Proceedings of the AMC on Human-Computing Interaction, Vol. 7, Issue CSCW1 (2023) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3579521
- Joseph S. Schafer and Kate Starbird. “Post-spotlight posts: The impact of sudden social media attention on account behavior.” CSCW ’23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. (2023) doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3606984
- Yeonhee Cho, Chris Coward, Jacob Lackner, Travis Willingham Windleharth, and Jin Ha Lee. “The use of an escape room as an immersive learning environment for building resilience to misinformation.” Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. (2023) doi.org/10.1177/09610006231208027
- Mert Can Bayar and Didem Seyis. “Populist responses to COVID-19: Turkey and Israel as cases of proscience populism and the United States and Brazil as examples of science-skeptic populism.” Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Springer International Publishing. (2023) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-30844-4_7
- Yuan Hsiao, John Leverso, and Andrew V. Papachristos. “The corner, the crew, and the digital street: Multiplex networks of gang online-offline conflict dynamics in the digital age.” American Sociological Review. (2023) doi.org/10.1177/00031224231184268
- Carl T. Bergstrom and C. Brandon Ogbunugafor. “Undue publicity for flawed fraud detector.” Science. science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7104
- Yim Register, Lucy Qin, Amanda Baughan, and Emma S. Spiro. “Attached to “The Algorithm”: Making sense of algorithmic precarity on Instagram.” Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2023) doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581257
- Madison Miller, Alexa R. Lindley, Jevin D. West, Erin K. Thayer and Emily M. Godfrey. “Does lower use of academic affiliation by university faculty in top U.S. newspapers contribute to misinformation about abortion?” Journal of Communication in Healthcare. (2023) doi.org/10.1080/17538068.2022.2150166
- Carole L. Palmer, Maria Bonn, Chris Coward, Emily Knox, Keith Marzullo, Ana Ndumu, Mega Subramaniam, and Andrea Thomer. “Advancing LIS in iSchools: Building a coalition to ensure a vibrant future.” Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. (2023) doi.org/10.1002/pra2.870
- Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Carl T. Bergstrom, Jennifer Jacquet, James Mickens, Zynep Tufekci, and Timmons Roberts. “Create an IPCC-like body to harness benefits and combat harms of digital tech.” Nature. (2023) doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01606-9
- Scott Radnitz. “Conspiracy theories and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” Russian Analytical Digest. (2023) doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000625073
- Sharon Werning Rivera, Julian G Waller, Scott Radnitz, and Daria Khlevnyuk. “Ideological and conspiratorial underpinnings of Russia’s war against Ukraine” (2023)
doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000625073 - Pranav Malhotra, Ruican Zhong, Victor Kuan, Gargi Panatula, Michelle Weng, Andrea Bras, Connie Moon Sehat, Franziska Roesner, Amy X. Zhang. “User experiences and needs when responding to misinformation on social media.” Harvard Kennedy School. Misinformation Review. (2023) misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/user-experiences-and-needs-when-responding-to-misinformation-on-social-media/
- Rachel E. Moran and Efrat Nechushtai. “Before reception: Trust in the news as infrastructure.” Journalism. (2023) doi.org/10.1177/14648849211048961
- Sukrit Venkatagiri, Joseph S. Schafer, and Stephen Prochaska. “The challenges of studying misinformation on video-sharing platforms during crises and mass-convergence events.” ACM CHI 2023 Workshop on Building Credibility, Trust, and Safety on Video-Sharing Platforms. (2023) arxiv.org/pdf/2303.14309.pdf
- Tianjiao Yu, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Ismini Lourentzou, and Kurt Luther. “Sedition hunters: A quantitative study of the crowdsourced investigation into the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack.” Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. (2023) doi.org/10.1145/3543507.3583514
- Anna Lee Swan. “Choosing recovery: postfeminist empowerment and the embodied self-brand.” Feminist Media Studies. (2023) doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1870244
- Hannah Van Wyk, Osiris Cruz-Antonio, Diana Quintero-Perez, Sayra Damian Garcia, Rachel Davidson, James Kendra, Kate Starbird. “Searching for signal and borrowing wi-fi: Understanding disaster-related adaptations to telecommunications disruptions through social media.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. (2023) doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103548
- Tianjiao Yu, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Ismini Lourentzou, and Kurt Luther. “Sedition Hunters: A quantitative study of the crowdsourced investigation into the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack.” Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023. doi.org/10.1145/3543507.3583514
- Sukrit Venkatagiri, Anirban Mukhopadhyay, David Hicks, Aaron Brantly, and Kurt Luther. “CoSINT: Designing a collaborative capture the flag competition to investigate misinformation.” Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. (2023) doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595997
- Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Naomi Mine, and Kurt Luther. “Diverse perspectives can mitigate political bias in crowdsourced content moderation.” ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. (2023) doi.org/10.1145/3593013.3594080
- Shagun Jhaver, Seth Frey, and Amy X. Zhang. “Decentralizing platform power: A design space of multi-level governance in online social platforms.” Social Media + Society. (2023) journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/20563051231207857
- Lia Bozarth, Jane Im, Christopher Quarles, and Ceren Budak. “Wisdom of two crowds: Misinformation moderation on Reddit and how to improve this process: A case study of COVID-19.” Proceedings of the AMC on Human-Computing Interaction, Vol. 7, Issue CSCW1 (2023) doi.org/10.1145/3579631
- Kaitlyn Zhou, Tom Wilson, Kate Starbird, and Emma S. Spiro. “Spotlight tweets: A lens for exploring attention dynamics within online sensemaking during crisis events.” Proceedings of the ACM Transactions on Social Computing. (2023) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3577213