Presentations featuring our findings

Image: Display from a public engagement event in 2024

International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Meeting 2025

June 2025. Denver, USA.

Vaccari, C., Chadwick, A., Hall, N-A., & Lawson, B., ‘Source Credibility as a Double-Edged Sword: How Attributing News to a Reputable Journalistic Brand Affects Users’ Disinformation Discernment on Personal Messaging.’

Cardiff University Research Showcase

Oct 2024. Cardiff, UK.

Public-facing overview of the project by Dr Natalie-Anne Hall, former EMP postdoc, now Lecturer in Social Sciences at Cardiff University.

American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting 2024

Sep 2024. Philadelphia, USA.

Vaccari, C., Chadwick, A., Hall, N-A., & Lawson, B. ‘Credibility as a Double-Edged Sword: How Attributing News to a Trusted Source Affects Responses to Misinformation on Personal Messaging.’

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Trust, Social Media, and Societal Health: Navigating Unsettling Dichotomies at the Intersections of Offline and Online Worlds

Dec 2023. University of Birmingham Institute of Applied Health Research.

Chadwick, A. ‘Trust, Vulnerability, and Online Misinformation: Notes of Cautious Optimism from a Longitudinal Qualitative Study.’

Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Annual Meeting 2023

Oct 2023. Philadelphia, USA.

Hall, N-A., Lawson, B., Vaccari, C. and Chadwick, A. ‘The Effectiveness of Misinformation Warning Tags on Encrypted Personal Messaging: User Experiences of WhatsApp’s “Forwarded (many times)’

American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting 2023

August-September 2023. Los Angeles, USA.

Lawson, B., A. Chadwick, C. Vaccari and N-A. Hall. ‘Trusting Others: The Credibility of Numbers on Personal Messaging Platforms’.

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Chadwick, A., N-A. Hall and C. Vaccari. ‘Misinformation Rules?! Could “Group Rules” Clean Up Online Personal Messaging?

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Data Justice Conference 2023

June 2023. Cardiff University, UK.

Lawson, B., A. Chadwick, C. Vaccari and N-A. Hall ‘Navigating a Sea of Data: How People Determine the Trustworthiness of Numbers on Personal Messaging Platforms’.

Pandemic Communication and Populism Symposium

June 2023. Loughborough University, UK.

Lawson, B., A. Chadwick, C. Vaccari and N-A. Hall ‘Trusting Peers and Public Discourse: Navigating Numerical Disinformation on Personal Messaging Platforms.

International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference 2023

May 2023. Toronto, Canada.

Chadwick, A., N-A. Hall and C. Vaccari. ‘Misinformation Rules?! The Potential for “Group Rules” to Reduce Misinformation in Online Personal Messaging’.

Hall, N-A., A. Chadwick and C. Vaccari. ‘Online Misinformation and Everyday Ontological Narratives of Social Distinction.

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What Does it Mean to ‘Live Healthily’ with Social Media?

September 2022. University of Birmingham Institute of Applied Health Research.

Chadwick, A., C. Vaccari and N-A. Hall. ‘Covid Vaccines and Online Personal Messaging: The Challenge of Challenging Everyday Misinformation’.

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Demos Conference on Vaccines and Misinformation

September 2022. Demos.

‘When Content Moderation Does Not Apply: Developing people’s social capacities for challenging Covid vaccine misinformation on personal messaging platforms’.

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American Sociological Association (ASA) Media Sociology Symposium

August 2022.

N-A. Hall, A. Chadwick and C. Vaccari. ‘”I would always be careful about what I receive”: Online misinformation, epistemic norms, and social distinction’.

International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference 2022

May 2022. Paris, France.

Inter-divisional panel organized by Andrew Chadwick: ‘Everyday Misinformation and Correction on Private Social Media: Relationality, affordances, and emergent norms’.

Chadwick, A., C. Vaccari and N-A. Hall. ‘What people talk about when they talk about misinformation on private social media’.

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