Andrew Flanagin
· Professor EmeritusVerifiedUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · Communication
Active 1996–2024
Research topics
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Computer Science
- Computer Security
- Art history
- Law
- Art
- World Wide Web
- Psychology
- Internet privacy
Selected publications
From Dark to Light: The Many Shades of Sharing Misinformation Online
Media and Communication · 2021 · 87 citations
- Computer Science
- Internet privacy
- Computer Security
Research typically presumes that people believe misinformation and propagate it through their social networks. Yet, a wide range of motivations for sharing misinformation might impact its spread, as well as people’s belief of it. By examining research on motivations for sharing news information generally, and misinformation specifically, we derive a range of motivations that broaden current understandings of the sharing of misinformation to include factors that may to some extent mitigate the presumed dangers of misinformation for society. To illustrate the utility of our viewpoint we report data from a preliminary study of people’s dis/belief reactions to misinformation shared on social media using natural language processing. Analyses of over 2,5 million comments demonstrate that misinformation on social media is often disbelieved. These insights are leveraged to propose directions for future research that incorporate a more inclusive understanding of the various motivations and strategies for sharing misinformation socially in large-scale online networks.
Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data
2020 · 87 citations
- Sociology
- Art history
- Art
Written by Michelle A. Amazeen, Fabrício Benevenuto, Nadia M. Brashier, Robert M. Bond, Lia C. Bozarth, Ceren Budak, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Lisa K. Fazio, Emilio Ferrara, Andrew J. Flanagin, Ales-sandro Flammini, Deen Freelon, Nir Grinberg, Ralph Hertwig, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Kenneth Jo-seph, Jason J. Jones, R. Kelly Garrett, Daniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor, Jasmine McNealy, Drew Margolin, Alice Marwick, FiIippo Menczer, Miriam J. Metzger, Seungahn Nah, Stephan Lewan-dowsky, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Pablo Ortellado, Irene Pasquetto, Gordon Pennycook, Ethan Porter, David G. Rand, Ronald Robertson, Briony Swire-Thompson, Francesca Tripodi, Soroush Vosoughi, Chris Vargo, Onur Varol, Brian E. Weeks, John Wihbey, Thomas J. Wood, & Kai-Cheng Yang
Frequent coauthors
- 47 shared
Miriam J. Metzger
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 17 shared
Bruce Bimber
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 14 shared
Cynthia Stohl
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 8 shared
Kristin Page Hocevar
Southern Oregon University
- 7 shared
Rebekah Pure
- 7 shared
Ethan Hartsell
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 7 shared
Alex Markov
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
- 6 shared
Zijian Lew
Nanyang Technological University
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