Supporting Information Integrity
As the information age continues to inundate every aspect of our lives, we find it imperative to study the positive and negative aspects of information in our society. Our work aims to scrutinize information seeking and sharing behaviors to find solutions that will improve how people consume and disseminate information so we can work towards a more just and sustainable future.
The Institute’s Research
Our Fellows’ Research
The Information Integrity Institute fellows were selected due to their research interests and areas of expertise. Below are just a few examples of their work that exemplifies why they were selected as our fellows.
Assistant Professor Ben Horne
How topic novelty impacts the effectiveness of news veracity interventions. Communications of the ACM
Local news online and covid in the us: relationships among coverage, cases, deaths, and audience. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Characterizing Youtube and Bitchute content and mobilizers during us election fraud discussions on twitter. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022
Professor Mariea Hoy
Parents’ Perceptions of the Sensitivity of their Children’s Personal Information and Willingness to Share with Social Media Marketers: Implications for Sharenting, Journal of Consumer Affairs
An Exploration of First-Time Dads’ Sharenting with Social Media Marketers: Implications for Children’s Online Privacy, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
Smart Devices, Smart Decisions? Implications of Parents’ Sharenting for Children’s Online Privacy: An Investigation of Mothers, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing
Associate Professor Michael Kotowski
Identifying influence: Development and validation of the connectivity, persuasiveness, and maven scales. Journal of Communication
A multi-trait multi-method validity assessment of the verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness instruments. Communication Monographs
Assistant Professor Martin Riedl
What makes an influence operation malign? (Working Paper). Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Political influencers on social media: An introduction. Social Media + Society
Reverse-engineering political protest: The Russian Internet Research Agency in the Heart of Texas. Information, Communication & Society