🧨new pub! CHAT GROUPS AS LOCAL CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE💬⚙️🆘 w/ @buehling.bsky.social and Emilija Gagrčin
pro-democratic participation on German Telegram, scalable mixed-methods chat log analysis, open access, IT IS NOT JUST ANOTHER PAPER ABOUT COVID: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
This issue highlights disconnection as a constrained act, a collective strategy against systemic issues & enforced disconnection as both control and resistance. It calls for reflection on normative assumptions shaping our understanding through interdisciplinary perspectives, contexts & methods
while news verification should be about facts, it is often done through a political lens. This begs the question: Will programs such as community notes that rely heavily on user verification serve their purpose or further exacerbate information disorder
We find news authentication is a resilience tool fostered by institutional trust & political efficacy, esp where structural factors fail to curb misinfo, but it's also fueled by conspiracy beliefs in Western democracies, reflecting its 'dark side' in contexts of growing anti-establishment sentiments
We used a multilevel comparative approach to examine how individual characteristics & structural contexts together shape news authentication, comparing countries with distinct media & political systmes: the Netherlands, the US, and Hong Kong with a preregistered, population-based survey (N = 6,082)