News from the project below
New article: The trustworthiness of peers and public discourse: exploring how people navigate numerical dis/misinformation on personal messaging platforms
Numbers have unique power in public discourse. For instance, some past research has shown that reporting statistical information increases the credibility and quality of news for audiences, and medical messages are more trusted when they contain numbers. But numbers have often been used in misleading ways. There is a long history of spurious numerical claims about…
Our New National Survey About Misinformation Warnings on Personal Messaging: Meta can do Better
Today we publish our new public report via the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C) at Loughborough University. Misinformation on Personal Messaging—Are WhatsApp’s Warnings Effective? provides new, population-level findings that confirm and expand the exploratory findings in our June 2023 report, Beyond Quick Fixes: How Users Make Sense of Misinformation Warnings on Personal Messaging. The evidence we…
New findings published on attitudes towards misinformation
The Everyday Misinformation Project has published a new peer-reviewed paper on findings from our qualitative fieldwork with personal messaging users. In Online misinformation and everyday ontological narratives of social distinction, published in Media, Culture & Society, Natalie-Anne Hall, Andrew Chadwick, and Cristian Vaccari reveal how some people discursively position their “taste” in information consumption as…
New Public Report – Beyond Quick Fixes: How Users Make Sense of Misinformation Warnings on Personal Messaging
The Everyday Misinformation Project has published its second public report. Beyond Quick Fixes: How Users Make Sense of Misinformation Warnings on Personal Messaging uncovers the multiple interpretations users have of misinformation warnings on personal messaging platforms. This report comes at an important time, as the Online Safety Bill is currently being debated in the UK…
Hot off the press: two new research articles from the Everyday Misinformation Project
We have two new research articles to share: Chadwick, A., Hall, N-A., & Vaccari, C. (2023). Misinformation Rules!? Could “Group Rules” Reduce Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging? New Media & Society.— Download pdf. Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C., & Hall, N-A. (2023). What Explains the Spread of Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging Networks? Exploring the Role…
Everyday Misinfo to Participate in Panel on Interpretive Methods at AoIR 2023
Research findings from the Everyday Misinformation Project will be presented at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference, 18-21 October 2023. We will participate in an international panel entitled Using Interpretive Methods to Study Credibility Evaluation of Online Information. The panel is organized by Yiping Xia (University of North Carolina), Pranav Malhotra, (University of Washington),…
Everyday Misinfo to present at ICA, APSA, Data Justice, and PANCOPOP Symposium in 2023
Findings from the qualitative strand of the Everyday Misinformation Project will be presented at four major events in 2023. The team will give two papers at the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference in Toronto, 25-29 May. The ICA is the largest and most significant event for communication studies researchers globally. In June, we have been…
Everyday Misinfo to participate in Demos online panel
Researchers from the Everyday Misinformation Project have been invited to contribute to an online conference, hosted by UK thinktank Demos and the University of Warwick, on Thursday 22nd September 2022. We will participate in a panel entitled ‘Beyond Content Moderation: Alternative methods for tackling vaccine hesitancy’. The panel will be held at 3pm, and forms…
Everyday Misinfo to present at workshop “What Does it Mean to ‘Live Healthily’ with Social Media?” Sept 23rd
Members of the the Everyday Misinformation Project team will present findings at a research workshop titled “What Does it Mean to ‘Live Healthily’ with Social Media?” The event is hosted by the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Applied Health Research on Friday 23 September 2022. It will take place in person at the Edgbaston Park…
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