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Kate Starbird

Conspiracy Theorizing in the Time of Covid-19: The Complementary Roles of Social and…

This post is a “data memo” examining how social media and hyper-partisan online news media play complementary roles in the spread of…

Jul 13, 2020

Conspiracy Theorizing in the Time of Covid-19: The Complementary Roles of Social and…

Jul 13, 2020

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OneZero

How a Crisis Researcher Makes Sense of Covid-19 Misinformation

Collective sensemaking during times of uncertainty and anxiety

Mar 9, 2020

How a Crisis Researcher Makes Sense of Covid-19 Misinformation

Mar 9, 2020

The Surprising Nuance Behind the Russian Troll Strategy

We set out to study internet discourse around #BlackLivesMatter — instead, we were unintentionally learning about Russian trolls

Oct 20, 2018

The Surprising Nuance Behind the Russian Troll Strategy

Oct 20, 2018

A First Glimpse through the Data Window onto the Internet Research Agency’s Twitter Operations

by Tom Wilson, Ahmer Arif, Melinda Haughey, Leo Stewart, and Kate Starbird

Oct 17, 2018

A First Glimpse through the Data Window onto the Internet Research Agency’s Twitter Operations

Oct 17, 2018

Content Sharing within the Alternative Media Echo-System: The Case of the White Helmets

In June 2017 our lab began a research project looking at online conversations about the Syria Civil Defence (aka the “White Helmets”). Over…

May 7, 2018

Content Sharing within the Alternative Media Echo-System: The Case of the White Helmets

May 7, 2018

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HCI & Design at UW

Information Wars: A Window into the Alternative Media Ecosystem

Conspiracy Theories, Muddled Thinking, and Political Disinformation

Mar 15, 2017

Information Wars: A Window into the Alternative Media Ecosystem

Mar 15, 2017

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HCI & Design at UW

Tracing Disinformation Trajectories from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

In 2010, as part of a team at the University of Colorado, I organized a crowdsourcing effort to map tweets from the Deepwater Horizon Oil…

Dec 2, 2016

Tracing Disinformation Trajectories from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Dec 2, 2016

Kate Starbird

Kate Starbird

Associate Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at UW. Researcher of crisis informatics and online rumors. Aging athlete. Army brat.

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