Скачать или смотреть Francesca Tripodi, 3/3/23: The Propagandists' Playbook

Francesca Tripodi provides a detailed analysis of the information tactics pundits and politicians use in pursuit of partisan gains. Combining interviews and ethnographic observations with content analysis, media immersion, and web-scraped metadata, her research takes audiences on a deep dive into the conservative information landscape, revealing the networked strategies of far-right groups. The goal of identifying these tactics is to break the feedback-loop to explain how an algorithmically polarized society poses a great risk to American democracy.

Francesca Tripodi is a sociologist and recognized expert in the field of misinformation studies, whose research examines the relationship between search engines, participatory platforms, politics, and society. She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Information Technology and Public Life (CITAP) at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research has been featured on NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Columbia Journalism Review, Wired, Slate, The Guardian, and The Neiman Journalism Lab.

This event is part of the Mapping the Far-Right Digital Infrastructure Series, and is sponsored by the UMass Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Communication, School of Public Policy, Journalism Department and the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure.