Towards Resilience: A Conversation with Kate Starbird About the Future of Online Elections Discourse

08/12/2024 33 min
Towards Resilience: A Conversation with Kate Starbird About the Future of Online Elections Discourse

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Kate Starbird is a professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and director of the Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation Laboratory at the University of Washington, and co-founder of the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public. Justin Hendrix interviewed her about her team’s ongoing efforts to study online rumors, including during the 2024 US election; the differences between the left and right media ecosystems in the US; and how she believes the research field is changing. 

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