by Beth Staats
Quick Summary
If you haven't seen it yet be sure to check out A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders. It is a resource to help users inves
If you haven't seen it yet be sure to check out A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders. It is a resource to help users investigate misleading and viral content, memes, and trolling practices online. Packed with data visualizations, this free manual highlights a series of research protocols, or “recipes,” which can be used to trace trolling practices—the ways false viral news and memes circulate online and the commercial underpinnings of problematic content. The guide was co-produced by the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University and the Public Data Lab in Amsterdam. Published under a Creative Commons License, the guide is free to copy, redistribute, and reuse.
