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Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
Even before the election the World Economic Forum had identified the rapid spread of misinformation as one of the top ten perils to society – alongside cybercrime and climate change.
Alan Rusbridger • Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
“One-pagers” were issued for left-wing pundits so they could fan out on TV network Sunday talk shows with coordinated messages—which explains, in part, the syndrome of news programs devolving into little more than look-alikes, with pundits and experts on both sides forwarding the narratives of paid interests. A Message Matters one-pager issued in M
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Howard Rheingold and University of California Berkeley Libraries have both developed useful checklists and criteria for evaluating information (e.g., Currency, Reliability, Authority, Purpose).
Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
Technology's Center for Constructive Communication in collaboration with their civil society collaborators; called Cortico. This approach and technology platform, dubbed Fora,
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
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Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw, asserts that media’s power comes from influencing what issues appear in public discourse.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
journalists independently decide which information to amplify or exclude, the potential for bias can creep into the newsgathering process.