Peer-reviewed articles, essays and other research contributions from 2024 follow below. Bolded authors and co-authors are affiliated with the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.
- Adiza Awaal. “Understanding the discourse of the Black Manosphere on YouTube.” Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. (2025)
doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681873 - Douglas Allchin, Carl T. Bergstrom, and Jonathan Osborne. “Transforming science education in an age of misinformation.” Journal of College Science Teaching. (2024) doi.org/10.1080/0047231X.2023.2292409
- Anna Beers. “On measuring change in networked publics: a case study of United States election publics on Twitter from 2020 to 2022.” Information, Communication & Society. (2024)
doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2430628 - Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Jevin D. West, and Emma S. Spirio. “Echo chambers in the age of algorithms: An audit of Twitter’s friend recommender system.” Proceedings of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference. (2024)
doi.org/10.1145/3614419.3643996 - Kayla Duskin. “Stemming the tide of problematic information in online environments: Assessing interventions and identifying opportunities for interruption.” Companion Publication of the 16th ACM Web Science Conference. (2024)
doi.org/10.1145/3630744.3658615 - Chau Tran, Kejsi Take, Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill, Rachel Greenstadt. “Challenges in restructuring community-based moderation.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2024)
doi.org/10.1145/3686954 - Morgan Wack and Madeline Jalbert. “Social truth queries as a novel method for combating misinformation: Evidence from Kenya.” The International Journal of Press/Politics.
doi.org/10.1177/194016122413016 - Madeline Jalbert and Raunak Pillai. “An illusory consensus effect: The mere repetition of information increases estimates that others would believe or already know it.” Collab: Psychology. (2024)
doi.org/10.1525/collabra.124533 - Emelia May Hughes, Renee Wang, Prerna Juneja, Tony W Li, Tanushree Mitra, Amy X. Zhang. “Viblio: Introducing credibility signals and citations to video-sharing platforms.” Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (2024)
- Zarine Kharazian, Kate Starbird, and Benjamin Mako Hill. “Governance capture in a self-governing community: A qualitative comparison of the Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 8, Issue CSCW1 (2024)
doi.org/10.1145/3637338 - 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 Sustainable Societies. (2024)
doi.org/10.1145/3625680 - Nina Lutz, Jordyn W. Padzensky, and Joseph S. Schafer. “Working with color: How color quantization can aid researchers of problematic information.” Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. (2024)
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3678884.3681863 - Bedoor AlShebli, Shahan Ali Memon, James A. Evans & Talal Rahwan “China and the U.S. produce more impactful AI research when collaborating together.” Scientific Reports. (2024)
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79863-5 - Robert Wolfe and Tanushree Mitra. “The Impact and Opportunities of Generative AI in Fact-Checking.” The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3630106.3658987 - Taylor Agajanian and Rachel Moran-Prestridge. “Gender as a central site of inquiry within mis-and disinformation studies.” Feminist Media Studies. (2024) doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2332643
- Mallory J. Harris, Ryan Murtfeldt, Shufan Wang, Erin A Mordecai, and Jevin D. West. “Perceived experts are prevalent and influential within an antivaccine community on Twitter.” PNAS Nexus. (2024)
doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae007 - Christina Yeung, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner. “Analyzing the (In) Accessibility of Online Advertisements.” Proceedings of the 2024 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference. (2024)
- Scott Radnitz and Yuan Hsiao. “Responses to contested information amid polarized politics: evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan.” Information, Communication & Society. (2024) doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2428348
- Yim Register, Izzi Grasso, Lauren N. Weingarten, Lilith Fury, Constanza Eliana Chinea, Tuck J. Malloy, Emma S. Spiro. “Beyond initial removal: Lasting impacts of discriminatory content moderation to marginalized creators on Instagram”
doi.org/10.1145/3637300 - Joseph S. Schafer and Mark Zachry. “The use and operationalization of ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ by Wikipedia editors.” WikiWorkshop. (2024)
wikiworkshop.org/papers/the-use-and-operationalization-of-misinformation-and-disinformation-by-wikipedia-editors.pdf - Kate Starbird and Ryan Calo. “American academic freedom is in peril.” American Association for the Advancement of Science. (2024)
doi.org/10.1126/science.adr3820 - Kate Starbird. “I’ve been studying misinformation for a decade—here are the rumours to watch out for on U.S. election day.” Nature. (2024)
doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03401-6 - Alana Montoya, Lingchao Mao, Adam Drewnowski, Joshua Chen, Ella Shi, Aileen Liang, Bryan J Weiner, and Yanfang Su. “Influencers in policy fields on social media: Global longitudinal study of dietary sodium reduction posts, 2006-2022.” Journal of Medical Internet Research. (2024)
jmir.org/2024/1/e54506/ - Stacey Wedlake, Chris Coward, and Jin Ha Lee. “How games can support misinformation education: A sociocultural perspective.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. (2024)
asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/asi.24954 - Amanda Alvarez, Aylin Caliskan, MJ Crockett, Shirley S Ho, Lisa Messeri, and Jevin D. West. “Science communication with generative AI.” Nature Human Behaviour. (2024)
doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01846-3 - Yiwei Xu and Drew Margolin. “Collective information seeking during a health crisis: Predictors of Google Trends during COVID-19.” Health Communication. (2024) https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2167578
- Lu Xian, Lingyao Li, Yiwei Xu, Ben Zefeng Zhang, Libby Hemphill. “Landscape of Large language models in global English news: Topics, sentiments, and spatiotemporal analysis.” Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. (2024)
doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31416 - Markus Neumann, Steven T. Moore, Laura M. Baum, Pavel Oleinikov, Yiwei Xu, Jeff Niederdeppe, Neil Lewis Jr., Sarah E. Gollust, and Erika Franklin Fowler. “Politicizing Masks? Examining the Volume and Content of Local News Coverage of Face Coverings in the U.S. Through the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Political Communication. (2024)
doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2239181 - Erin Ash, Yiwei Xu, Rebecca Pool, Kelsea Schulenberg, Sai Datta Mikkilineni, and Toni Baraka. “Exemplification Effects on Policy Support: Exemplar Familiarity, Narrative Vividness, and Perceptions of Maternal Health Disparities.” Health Communication. (2024)
doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2200907 - Connie Moon Sehat, Ryan Li, Peipei Nie, Tarunima Prabhakar, and Amy X. Zhang. “Misinformation as a harm: structured approaches for fact-checking prioritization.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (2024) doi.org/10.1145/3646547.3688427
- JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Anna Fang, Cassidy Pyle, Guo Freeman, Ryan M Kelly, Angela Y Lee, Fannie Liu, Angela DR Smith, Alexandra To, and Amy X. Zhang. “Envisioning new futures of positive social technology: Beyond paradigms of fixing, protecting, and preventing.” Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. (2024) doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681833
- Binbin Lin, Lei Zou, Bo Zhao, Xiao Huang, Heng Cai, Mingzheng Yang, and Bing Zhou. “Sensing the pulse of the pandemic: unveiling the geographical and demographic disparities of public sentiment toward COVID-19 through social media.” Cartography and Geographic Information Science. (2024)
doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.2323489 - Ashley Lowe Mackenzie, Steven J. Dundas, and Bo Zhao. “The Instagram Effect: Is social media influencing visitation to public lands?” Land Economics. (2024)
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Research commentaries and essays
- Zarine Kharazian, Madeline Jalbert, and Saloni Dash. “Our field was built on decades-old bodies of research across a range of disciplines. It wasn’t invented by a ‘class of misinformation experts’ in 2016.” (2024)
cip.uw.edu/2024/01/24/misinformation-field-research/ - Shahan Ali Memon and Jevin D. West. “Search engines post-ChatGPT: How generative artificial intelligence could make search less reliable.” University of Washington Center for an Informed Public. (2024) cip.uw.edu/2024/02/18/search-engines-chatgpt-generative-artificial-intelligence-less-reliable/
- Kevin Feng, Jina Yoon, and Amy X. Zhang. “Can provenance save us from a barrage of synthetic media?” UW Center for an Informed Public. (2024)
cip.uw.edu/2024/02/21/provenance-synthetic-media-trust-perceptions/ - Liz Crouse. “Lessons for everyone, not just students, at MisinfoDay.” The Seattle Times. (2024)
seattletimes.com/opinion/lessons-for-everyone-not-just-students-at-misinfoday/ - Carl T. Bergstrom and C. Brandon Ogbunu. “AI will turn our lives into The Truman Show.” Scientific American. (2024) scientificamerican.com/article/ai-will-turn-our-lives-into-the-truman-show/
- Carl T. Bergstrom and C. Brandon Ogbunu. “Social media is junk food for information foragers.” Scientific American. (2024)
scientificamerican.com/article/social-media-exploits-our-evolutionary-desire-for-information/ - Madeline Jalbert and Ira Hyman. “Is ‘weird-checking’ the new fact-checking?” UW Center for an Informed Public. (2024)
cip.uw.edu/2024/08/12/weird-checking-new-fact-checking/
- The Conversation (July 19): “Online rumors sparked by the Trump assassination attempt spread rapidly, on both ends of the political spectrum” CIP research manager Danielle Lee Tomson and graduate research assistants Melinda McClure Haughey and Stephen Prochaska co-authored an article distributed through The Conversation that’s adapted from the CIP’s July 15 rapid-research blog post “Making sense of rumors about the Trump assassination attempt.”
- Madeline Jalbert and Ira Hyman. “Why weird-checking can be more effective than fact-checking.” The (Tacoma) News-Tribune. (2024)
thenewstribune.com/opinion/article292305899.html - Danielle Lee Tomson, Stephen Prochaska and Kate Starbird. “We research rumors. Here’s how the right’s election denial machine has evolved.” MSNBC.com. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/election-2024-fraud-rumors-pennsylvania-trump-harris-rcna178710
- Kate Starbird and Stephen Prochaska. “Misinformation is more than just bad facts: How and why people spread rumors is key to understand” The Conversation. (2024)
theconversation.com/misinformation-is-more-than-just-bad-facts-how-and-why-people-spread-rumors-is-key-to-understanding-how-false-information-travels-and-takes-root-241748ing how false information travels and takes root - Danielle Lee Tomson and Kate Starbird. “How right-wing media is like improv theater.” The Conversation (2024) theconversation.com/how-right-wing-media-is-like-improv-theater-243665