Docket+ 29 May
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!
Don't forget! You can now treat someone you know to an annual subscription to DisinfoDocket.
đź’ˇ
Good morning! Don't miss -
* How one journalist uses Instagram to pull back the curtain on her reporting process
* Online Incitement and Small-Scale Terrorism: Violent Rhetoric from the Freedom Movement on Facebook
* OSoME launches the Top FIBers dashboard
* How one journalist uses Instagram to pull back the curtain on her reporting process
* Online Incitement and Small-Scale Terrorism: Violent Rhetoric from the Freedom Movement on Facebook
* OSoME launches the Top FIBers dashboard
Highlights
- Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding (MIT, 22 May)
- The curious case of user one134500 and the most obvious reply spam ever (Conspirator Norteño, 22 May)
- Civic Information Handbook: How to recognize and compete with coordinated information campaigns (Hoaxlines, 24 May)
- The Top FIBers dashboard tracks and reports on the top ten superspreaders of low-credibility information on Twitter and Facebook each month. (OSoME)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- On alternative social media sites, many prominent accounts seek financial support from audiences (Pew, 19 May)
- How Can We Know What We Think We Know about Cyber Operations? Â (Oxford Academic, 22 May)
- The power of platforms—precarity and place (Oxford Academic, 23 May)
Information Integrity
- If platforms are required to have your government IDs and face scans, hackers and enemy governments can access them too (RStreet, 22 May)
1.2 World News
- The Anatomy of Gaslighting, New qualitative research sheds light on key dynamics, motivations, and outcomes. (Psychology Today, 21 May)
- How Pew Research Center will report on generations moving forward (Pew, 22 May)
- How news site Daraj reports on women’s rights and corruption across the Middle East (Reuters Institute, 23 May)
- Political Discourse in China: How Does China Frame Hong Kong Protests to Its Domestic Audience? (Journal QD, 15 May)