Docket+ 24 July
Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Hi! I'm Victoria and welcome to DisinfoDocket. Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Did you know that DisinfoDocket takes requests? If you have suggestions or relevant work that you'd like to see included, simply reply to this email and send us the details!
⭐
💡
Good morning! Don't miss -
* Beyond Fake News: Meta-Ideological Awareness (MIA) as an Antidote to Conspiracy and Radicalisation
* War, stock photos, and breaking news: A series of inauthentic social media accounts has been misrepresenting old photographs as current coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine for roughly a year
* Chilling Legislation: Tracking the Impact of “Fake News” Laws on Press Freedom Internationally
* Beyond Fake News: Meta-Ideological Awareness (MIA) as an Antidote to Conspiracy and Radicalisation
* War, stock photos, and breaking news: A series of inauthentic social media accounts has been misrepresenting old photographs as current coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine for roughly a year
* Chilling Legislation: Tracking the Impact of “Fake News” Laws on Press Freedom Internationally
Highlights
🙌 What motivates people to support anti-vaccination rhetoric? #eu4health
— JITSUVAX (@jitsuvax) July 19, 2023
We, @dlholf @FasceAngelo @STWorg @PhilippMSchmid, explore in this blog post what we found in our two recent papers! https://t.co/SCAArxrAjF
- Messaging Apps: A Rising Tool for Informational Autocrats (SAGE, 19 July)
- Chilling Legislation: Tracking the Impact of “Fake News” Laws on Press Freedom Internationally (NED, 19 July)
- Most Americans favor restrictions on false information, violent content online (Pew, 20 July)
- The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative launches its new website (July)
- China’s cyber interference narrows in on Australian politics and policy (ASPI, 24 July)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- The National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan: A CSI Markup (DFRLab, 18 July)
- Attentional capture helps explain why moral and emotional content go viral (PsyArXiv, 17 July)
- The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The role of motivation, attention and design in the spread of moralized content online (PsyArXiv, 17 July)
- Estimating the effect size of moral contagion in online networks: A pre-registered replication and meta-analysis (OSF, 17 July)
- The Perception of Older Adults Regarding Socio-Political Issues Disseminated on Social Networks (Cogitatio, 18 July)
- Assessing and Exploiting Domain Name Misinformation (ArXiv, 14 July)
- The Roll-Out of Community Notes Did Not Reduce Engagement With Misinformation on Twitter (ArXiv, 16 July)
- Discovering collective narratives shifts in online discussions (ArXiv, 17 July)
- Computational propaganda: Concepts, methods, and challenges (SAGE, 17 July)