{"id":2078,"date":"2021-05-07T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2021-06-12T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T21:31:33","slug":"participatory-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2021\/05\/07\/participatory-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback loops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The original focus of University of Washington’s Professor Kate Starbird’s research was Crisis Informatics<\/a>, “the study of how information-communication technologies are used during crisis events, including natural disasters (like earthquakes and hurricanes) and man-made disasters (such as shooting events and acts of terrorism). … Initially, [her] research focused on the pro-social activities that social media platforms facilitate \u2014 for example, how people come together after crisis events to help themselves, their neighbors, and even people halfway around the world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More recently Starbird has studied the NOT-pro-social consequences “perpetrated by increasingly dense and often oddly connected networks of accounts.” It is important and scary work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The infographic above is part of an illuminating slideshow Starbird put together “to help explain the dynamics of ‘participatory disinformation’ and how that motivated the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.” Click on the image to see the whole thing<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credit: Kate Starbird<\/a>, University of Washington, Human Centered & Design Program<\/a> and Center for an Informed Public<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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