The Data Abyss: How Lack of Data Access Leaves Research and Society in the Dark
This article articulates why the lack of social media platform data access for researchers is a huge problem, for research and society. We then review a number of ongoing initiatives and...
Data visualization has direct political implications. Across four experiments which slightly vary the visualization of data about projected racial demographic change in the United States, the...
This testimony reports the key findings from our research on the effect that former President Trump’s false claims of widespread voter and electoral fraud had on public faith in the election system.
Key considerations in digital population health interventions
Digital health technologies (DHTs) have become an integral part of global public health initiatives from encouraging and monitoring vaccine uptake to supporting self-management of long-term...
Monitoring Hate Speech and the Limits of Current Definition
Current definitions of hate speech are inadequate as the basis for monitoring hate speech targeted at groups.
The Digital Services Act and the Brussels Effect on Platform Content Moderation
The European Union (EU) is at it again — engaging in extensive regulation of social media platforms in ways that will affect how the platforms regulate not just in the EU, but the world over.
First Amendment Protections for “Good Trouble”
The more things change, the more they stay the same. This unfortunately is true with respect to the efforts of civil rights activities and the response of the dominant power structure in the United...
The Role of Mental Representation in Sharing Misinformation Online
Fuzzy-Trace Theory posits that people will be more likely to share misinformation online if it promotes gist mental representations that cue motivationally-relevant values. In this paper, the...
Could a Global “Wicked Problems Agency” Incentivize Data Sharing?
Global data sharing could help solve “wicked” problems (problems such as climate change, terrorism and global poverty that no one knows how to solve without creating further problems).
Newer tobacco products might be more likely to use social media as they grow in the global market. This study examined global social media marketing of HTPs.
