This also means that Microsoft’s vision of the future is a world less focused on search, and more focused on answers. Source: Moving From Search to Answers With Bing and ChatGPT
Category: Info-environmentalism
Inoculation Science – Interactive Games
So far, we’ve launched three different games, each of which covers a different domain of misinformation: Bad News (about online “fake news”), Harmony Square (about political disinformation and intergroup polarization), and Go Viral! (about COVID-19 misinformation) Source: Inoculation Science – Interactive Games
Inoculation Science – Home
This website brings together research and resources on inoculation theory applied to misinformation. Source: Inoculation Science – Home
Why Can’t We Agree On What’s True? | Dr. Ian O’Byrne
Digital platforms and ubiquitous access to these spaces have ushered in a new public mindset that ends in a refusal to accept any mainstream or official account of the world. Source: Why Can’t We Agree On What’s True? | Dr. Ian O’Byrne
Data & Society — Data Voids
Michael Golebiewski of Microsoft coined the term “data void” in May 2018 to describe search engine queries that turn up little to no results, especially when the query is rather obscure, or not searched often. Source: Data & Society — Data Voids
Ctrl-F: Helping make networks more resilient against misinformation can be as simple as two fingers » Nieman Journalism Lab
People have a limited amount of effort they’ll expend on verification, the lack of knowledge here may be as big a barrier as other cognitive biases. Why we aren’t vigorously addressing issues like this in order to build a more resilient information network (or even to just help students study efficiently!) is something I continue […]
September | 2021 | Hapgood
Anyway, this is my attempted contribution to get us past the endless cycle where people involved with theorizing one level explain to people theorizing the other levels why their work is not the Real Work (TM). In reality, no link in the intervention chain can function meaningfully without the others. (And yes, I am mixing […]
September | 2021 | Hapgood
There are four places where information interventions can be applied. Moderation/promotion Interface Individual Social Source: September | 2021 | Hapgood
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Put another way, the internet may have democratized access to raw data and information, but consumers can’t possibly make sense of it all on their own. Caulfield believes professors should talk about this challenge openly with their students. Source: Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
One strategy they use is to get underneath the news of the day. Instead of confronting a statement head on as to whether, say, the threat of Covid-19 is exaggerated, they discuss the appeal and effectiveness of disinformation campaigns and how to discern the truth. Source: Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
