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Designing to Support Reflection on Values & Practices to Address Online Disinformation

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CSCW '18 Companion: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3272974

Published: 30 October 2018 Publication History

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This research examines crowd and algorithm driven information flows in our current social media ecosystem to understand and address some of the instabilities fueling online misinformation and disinformation. The work combines empirical analysis of social media data, alternative news websites, interviews, and a design intervention to provide insights that are useful for challenging the muddled thinking, passive acquiescence and rote behaviors that give oxygen to online disinformation. Four interrelated studies are synthesized to further our understanding about online disinformation and how we might cultivate new media practices that can aid us in coping under rapidly evolving and challenging conditions.

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Designing to Support Reflection on Values & Practices to Address Online Disinformation
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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CSCW '18 Companion: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

October 2018

518 pages

ISBN:9781450360180

DOI:10.1145/3272973

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University of Twente
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Vienna University of Technology
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University of Illinois
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Schafer JStarbird KRosner D(2023)Participatory Design and Power in Misinformation, Disinformation, and Online Hate ResearchProceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3563657.3596119(1724-1739)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563657.3596119
Venkatagiri SMukhopadhyay AHicks DBrantly ALuther K(2023)CoSINT: Designing a Collaborative Capture the Flag Competition to Investigate MisinformationProceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference10.1145/3563657.3595997(2551-2572)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563657.3595997
Appling SBruckman ADe Choudhury M(2022)Reactions to Fact CheckingProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35551286:CSCW2(1-17)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2022
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