Thoughts about CSCW ‘Fake News’ class
- Home to Roost
- Fake it to make it game
- The Law of Group Polarization
- Online clustering, fear and uncertainty in Egypt’s transition
- Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda
- On the Milo Bus With the Lost Boys of America’s New Right
- Facebook’s guide to handling Fake News
- Junk News and Bots during the U.S. Election: What Were Michigan Voters Sharing Over Twitter? And here’s the full paper.
- Principles that motivate citizen behaviour according to Montesquieu
- Driving each classification of political system, according to Montesquieu, must be what he calls a “principle”. This principle acts as a spring or motor to motivate behavior on the part of the citizens in ways that will tend to support that regime and make it function smoothly.
- For democratic republics (and to a somewhat lesser extent for aristocratic republics), this spring is the love of virtue—the willingness to put the interests of the community ahead of private interests.
- For monarchies, the spring is the love of honor—the desire to attain greater rank and privilege.
- Finally, for despotisms, the spring is the fear of the ruler.
- Driving each classification of political system, according to Montesquieu, must be what he calls a “principle”. This principle acts as a spring or motor to motivate behavior on the part of the citizens in ways that will tend to support that regime and make it function smoothly.
A political system cannot last long if its appropriate principle is lacking. Montesquieu claims, for example, that the English failed to establish a republic after the Civil War (1642–1651) because the society lacked the requisite love of virtue.
- My thoughts on Arendt’s Origin of Totalitarianism as it relates to information
- FiveThirtyEight’s take on r/TheDonald
- Information Wars: A Window into the Alternative Media Ecosystem
- By Kate Starbird, (Scholar)
Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
- By Kate Starbird, (Scholar)
- On Building a “Fake News” Classification Model
- Helena sent a nice link to Announcing New Research: “A Field Guide to Fake News” it’s from First Draft News, which purports to be Essential resources for reporting and sharing information that emerges online
- Defense Against the Dark Arts: Networked Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda
- Filter bubbles, echo chambers, and online news consumption. Post is here
- Thom Lieb found this for me today: Reuters Tracer – A Large Scale System of Detecting Verifying Real-Time News Events from Twitter. Downloaded. A must read.
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