Research Topics Algorithms and Automation Credibility and Trust False Narratives and their Contexts Infrastructures and Methodologies Polarization and Political Manipulation Regulation, Policy, & Platform Governance Targeted Disinformation Articles Research Reviews Profiles Citations About Click to search site Search terms 01 02 03 04 Article “They’re Coming to Take over Our Country”: Researching Global Circuits of Racist Misinformation Racist logics are a regular trope that crosses borders, becoming incorp
Commonly misnamed “revenge porn,” image-based abuse is the non-consensual creation and distribution of private images. Much more than “one-off” attacks that cause hurt feelings, image-based abuse has become a broad effort to silence and shame people in public spaces. This literature review brings together relevant research from the fields of law, communication, psychology, and public health to explain how image-based abuse has become an ever-present threat to privacy, safety, and speech.
When a contentious and complicated topic, like vaccine efficacy, arises in online conversations, how can health communicators de-escalate conflict, increase understanding, and build common ground? In a collaboration between Hacks/Hackers’ Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT) project, MediaWell is calling for scholars in relevant fields to contribute to a interdisciplinary research review on how to improve information exchanges and build trust, both online and off.