Feb 6, 2025 | News, Research, Updates
Computational social scientist Alexandros Efstratiou started work in January as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Efstratiou, who is based in the UW Information School, recently finished his doctoral studies in...
Feb 5, 2025 | Events, Research, Updates
Join Center for an Informed Public co-founder Kate Starbird for a discussion about her work understanding online rumors, misinformation and disinformation. Rumors are an inherent human reaction to crisis events like natural disasters or political upheaval because they...
Jan 24, 2025 | News, Updates
Cullen White, a strategic operations leader with more than 15 years of experience driving organizational transformation and social impact initiatives, has started as the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public’s new director of strategy and operations....
Dec 19, 2024 | News, Newsletter, Updates
This is the web version of the December 2024 edition of the Center for an Informed Public‘s News & Insights newsletter that was originally sent out on December 19, 2024. Fostering a more informed public through media literacy education across Washington and beyond...
Dec 4, 2024 | Education, News, Updates
Through the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public’s MisinfoDay @ MyCommunity program, a group of librarians at Des Moines University recently adapted media literacy educational activities first developed at the CIP and tested in classrooms and...
Dec 4, 2024 | News, Research, Updates
By Danielle Lee Tomson and Kate Starbird Center for an Informed Public University of Washington This article was originally published by The Conversation on December 4, 2024. If you’ve ever wondered how the right-wing media ecosystem operates and why it’s effective,...
