So to review from parts one and two: People have a lot of stuff they can share or attend to online. In order to efficiently create and process content we look at things like “evidence” through tropes Tropes, not narratives or individual claims, are the lynchpin of activism and propaganda, whether true or false, participatory or… Continue reading

Part 2 of a series. Follows Part 1. Followed by Part 3. So to review from yesterday: People have a lot of stuff they can share or attend to online. In order to efficiently create and process content we look at things like “evidence” through tropes Tropes, not narratives or individual claims, are the lynchpin… Continue reading

Note: In this post, I jump back and forth between the use of tropes to frame events ethically, non-ethically, and in-between. This is not meant to be “both-sidesim”. Rather it is meant to demonstrate something of the utmost importance to policy discussions about misinformation: there isn’t really a magical set of techniques associated with “misinformation”… Continue reading

Today’s activity revolves around a tweet that National Geographic (through the Society) has recognized a fifth ocean. I use this tweet here as a jumping off point, but if you want to run it in in another platform you can find examples anywhere. Like over half the prompts we use with SIFT, this is a true prompt,… Continue reading