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Docket+ 23 January

Docket+ is a weekly roundup of the latest influence operations-related academic research, events and job opportunities.
Docket+ 23 January
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Highlights

  1. How to Maintain Mental Hygiene as an Open Source Investigator (GIJN, 19 January)
  2. University of Oxford researchers have published new work exploring how health misinformation campaigns are able to operate and succeed online, using infrastructure provided by the world’s leading tech companies. (Oxford Internet Institute, 19 January)
  3. Inside the attack on Brazil’s Capitol, where reporters were chased, insulted and beaten (Reuters Institute, 17 January)
  4. Emergence of Polarization in Coevolving Networks (APS, 18 January)
  5. Dragon's Roar and Bear's Howl: Convergence in Sino-Russian Information Operations in NATO Countries? (NATO StratComCoE, 20 January)


1. Academia & Research

1.1 Platforms & Technology

  1. Appealing to Motivation to Change Attitudes, Intentions, and Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of 702 Experimental Tests of the Effects of Motivational Message Matching on Persuasion (PsycNet, 2022)
  2. Adolescent co-researchers identified the central role of social media for young people during the pandemic (Wiley, 16 January)
  3. Simplistic Collection and Labeling Practices Limit the Utility of Benchmark Datasets for Twitter Bot Detection (ArXiv, 17 January)
  4. Practicing Information Sensibility: How Gen Z Engages with Online Information (ArXiv, 17 January)

Information spread

  1. Sharing of misinformation is habitual, not just lazy or biased (PNAS, 17 January)
  2. Practicing Information Sensibility: How Gen Z Engages with Online Information (ArXiv, 17 January)

1.2 World News

  1. Lies and Bullshit: The Negative Effects of Misinformation Grow Stronger Over Time (Wiley, 16 January)
  2. A Twitter Dataset for Pakistani Political Discourse (ArXiv, 16 January)
  3. Populist ideology, ideological attitudes, and anti-immigration attitudes as an integrated system of beliefs (PlosOne, 17 January)
  4. Is Online Textual Political Expression Associated With Political Knowledge? (SAGE, 19 January)
  5. A Thematic Analysis of Fake News in India During the Pandemic (T&F, 13 January)
  6. Misinformation on Trial: Media Coverage of a Murder, Public Conversation and Fact-Checking (T&F, 12 January)
  7. The miasma of misinformation: a social analysis of media, markets, and manipulation (T&F, 17 January)
  8. How People Process Different Types of Misinformation on Social Media: A Taxonomy Based on Falsity Level and Evidence Type (SSRN, 17 January)

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