by TIPI Staff | Aug 2, 2021
This week, TIPI researchers will be presenting a recent disinformation study at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in its Communication Technology Division (CTEC). Title: “Visually provocative: How...
by Martin Riedl | Jul 23, 2021
For a new study recently published in Information, Communication & Society, TIPI looked at protests in Houston, Texas that occurred prior to the 2016 elections and which had been connected to the Russian Internet Research Agency-sponsored Facebook page...
by Soyoung Park | Jun 9, 2021
In recent years, misinformation, disinformation, and online propaganda have proliferated across diverse digital media platforms. Past attempts of malicious actors to disseminate unreliable and misleading information through social media have effectively fragmented the...
by Mitch Chaiet | Apr 8, 2020
Weaponizing the spread of memetic content became a priority of Russian disinformation efforts during the 2016 US Presidential election. Using reverse image search tactics and cutting edge open-source intelligence technologies, University of Texas undergraduate Mitch...
by TIPI Staff | Mar 11, 2020
As part of the campus-wide Good Systems initiative, TIPI has invited two new researchers, Tiancheng (Leo) Cao and Brad Limov to the Disinformation team. They will investigate questions about how message circulation and associated display properties mobilize...
by TIPI Staff | Jan 16, 2020
Photo credit: Rob Dobi, The Globe and Mail Disinformation Research for Good Systems Summary The Internet, with its ubiquitous presence, viral pull and anonymity, can be a central tool for disinformation. Unfortunately, the economic models of media industries...
by TIPI Staff | Dec 2, 2019
Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election has expanded discussions about the role of misinformation in politics as well as people’s information behavior. While many studies have been conducted to unravel the strategies and impacts of the Russian IRA’s...
by TIPI Staff | Dec 2, 2019
Organized and hosted by graduate students from The University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio-Television-Film, this year’s Global Fusion Conference took place in Austin, Texas, from Friday, October 25th to Sunday, October 27th, in the Belo Center for New Media....
by TIPI Staff | Oct 11, 2019
2020-02-21 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. There is so much buzz about artificial intelligence, but what’s real and what’s fiction? In this hands-on session about AI’s effects on science and society, Harvard researcher and artist Sarah Newman will help us...
by TIPI Staff | Oct 11, 2019
12:00 p.m. in FAC 402 As part of our Good Systems work, Talia Stroud, Director of the Center for Media Engagement, Mary Neuburger, Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Sharon Strover proposed to host monthly “Disinformation Network” meetings to...
