Docket+ 6 March
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* A parallel terrain: Public-private defense of the Ukrainian information environment
* Strategic Communications and COVID-19: Exploring and Exploiting a Global Crisis
* New Reporting Tools to Archive Videos, Find QAnon Networks, and Track Targets via Online Reviews
Highlights
- Five Ways Not to Keep Kids Safe Online (RStreet, 22 February)
- Technochauvinism and Online Extremism (GNET, 24 February)
- Shielding Democracy: Civil Society Adaptions to Kremlin Disinformation about Ukraine (NED, 22 February)
Excellent summer school at Lake Como School of Advanced Studies from 24 – 28 July 2023:
— AmyRuckes🌺 (@AmyRuckes) March 5, 2023
DIGITAL METHODS FOR CRITICAL CONSUMER STUDIES#AcademicTwitter https://t.co/9yV08V5cYX
We are pleased to begin accepting nominations for PolNet’s 2023 Political Ties Award for the best article on political networks published (online or in print) in a peer-reviewed journal in the previous year. Deadline is April 15. Details available at: https://t.co/MfucN9np8O
— Political Networks (@PolNetworks) March 3, 2023
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- Nature's Take: How Twitter's changes could affect science (Nature, 27 February)
- The Future of Human Agency (Pew Research Center, 24 February)
- The challenge of platform capture: This is part of a series on platforms and the press published jointly by CJR and the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy. (Columbia Journalism Review, 27 February)
- ChatGPT – Friend or foe? (Oxford Internet Institute, 28 February)
- Examining accuracy-prompt efficacy in combination with using colored borders to differentiate news and social content online (PsyArXiv, 27 February)
- Social Media Repertoires: Investigating Multifaceted Social Media Use Among Late Adolescents (Journal QD, 23 February)
Information Spread
- Towards a general model of fake news belief and sharing (PsyArXiv, 28 February)
1.2 World News
Looking for more collaborators to help @WeiaiWayne Brendan O’Connor and team to help make sense of 3 years of tweets around “Asian hate” for our Asian American Influencer Mapping exercise @SBS_UMass pic.twitter.com/IEfDEx3hYd
— Jonathan Corpus Ong (@jonathan_c_ong) March 3, 2023
- PRC spy balloon reveals new arena of strategic competition (CNA, February)
- Conserving complexity: A complex systems paradigm and framework to study public relations’ contribution to grand challenges (Science Direct, June 2023)
- This city council member does not exist: Inauthentic social media accounts with artificially generated faces are a dime a dozen these days, but not all of them claim to be local elected officials (Conspirator Norteño, 6 March)