Hi, just a quick plug to mention our ICWSM workshop on Digital
Misinformation, in Montreal the next 15th of May.
A preliminary program is available; and Kate Starbird will be one of the
panelist.
Cheers!
G
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 3:05 PM Jodi Schneider <jschneider(a)pobox.com> wrote:
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-alte…
Really appreciate your sharing this, I hadn't seen it!
-Jodi
On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> 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
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