Thanks, Pine. Here's her ICWSM preprint "Examining the Alternative Media Ecosystem through the Production of Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter": http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Alt_Narratives_ICWSM17-CameraReady.pdf via https://twitter.com/katestarbird/status/848254127289257984
She's also written up a blog post about it: https://medium.com/hci-design-at-uw/information-wars-a-window-into-the-alternative-media-ecosystem-a1347f32fd8f Really appreciate your sharing this, I hadn't seen it! -Jodi On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > A thought-provoking newspaper column about a University of Washington > professor's troubling findings: > http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/uw- > professor-the-information-war-is-real-and-were-losing-it/ > > Quoting briefly from the article: > > "Starbird is publishing her paper as a sort of warning. The information > networks we’ve built are almost perfectly designed to exploit psychological > vulnerabilities to rumor." > > "Your brain tells you ‘Hey, I got this from three different sources,’ ” she > says. “But you don’t realize it all traces back to the same place, and > might have even reached you via bots posing as real people. If we think of > this as a virus, I wouldn’t know how to vaccinate for it.” > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
