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    Joshua BentonJuly 18, 2024
    You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend
    “The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too.
    Laura Hazard OwenMay 4, 2018
    People who are delusional, dogmatic, or religious fundamentalists are more likely to believe fake news
    Plus: “Women over 65 years write very rude things on the internet.”
    Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 6, 2018
    Crowdsourcing trusted news sources can work — but not the way Facebook says it’ll do it
    A new study finds asking Facebook users about publishers could “be quite effective in decreasing the amount of misinformation and disinformation circulating on social media” — but Facebook will need to make one important change to its plan.
    Shan WangDecember 18, 2017
    How much news makes it into people’s Facebook feeds? Our experiment suggests not much
    Half the people in our survey saw no news at all in the first 10 posts in their feeds — even using an extremely generous definition of “news” that counted everything from celebrity gossip to sports scores to history-based explainers, across all mediums.
    John WihbeyMay 30, 2014
    What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: The urge for a webby explanation for world events, and the FT’s digital shift
    Crowdsourcing tiny snippets of time, building the news around analytics, and how Twitter is weird during big news events: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
    John WihbeyNovember 27, 2013
    What’s New in Digital Scholarship: Gendered sourcing on Twitter and the allure of following the crowd
    Moving from swing states to swing individuals, how your CMS affects your journalism, and the efficacy of digital activism: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
    Mark CoddingtonJanuary 11, 2013
    This Week in Review: A challenge to Chinese censorship, and the AP’s DIY sponsored tweets
    Plus: The debate over transparency and objectivity, more fallout from gun record publication, the Bradley Manning case, and the rest of the week’s media/tech news.
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    Andrew PhelpsNovember 8, 2011
    Ethan Zuckerman wants you to eat your (news) vegetables — or at least have better information
    Zuckerman wants to create nutritional labels for news, showing how much marshmallow fluff you mix in with your meat and potatoes. But both the tech and politics of categorizing journalism have a long way to go.
    March 24, 2011
    The power of brand to inspire bias: How do perceptions of Al Jazeera English change once the logo’s gone?
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